HTML
<span class="char" id="0">?</span>
<span class="char" id="1">!</span>
<span class="char" id="2">"</span>
<span class="char" id="3">/</span>
<span class="char" id="4">%</span>
<span class="char" id="5">$</span>
...
JavaScript
var charElems = document.getElementsByClassName('char');
for (var i=0; i < charElems.length; i++) {
charElems[i].addEventListener('mouseover',function() {
(function(j) {mouseoverCheck(j);}(i));
});
}
I have a bunch (hundreds) of span
elements with numbers as IDs (starting from 0 and incrementing by 1). What this loop is supposed to do is create mouseover event listeners for all the span
elements (which all have a class of char
). Once moused over, it should excecute the mouseoverCheck()
function and pass in whatever i
was when that event listener was created. So the 203rd event listener should pass in 203
. But it does not. Right now, it passes in what I believe is the last value i
was before the loop completed.
I was attempting to use an IIFE and closure to make sure each event listener got i
's value at the time it was created, instead of it's value when the function is called. Clearly, I didn't do it correctly, but I am fairly certain closure is the key to my problem. Can anyone shed some light on how to do this properly? I thought I understood closure, but clearly I do not...