jQuery/JavaScript “this” pointer confusion

Question

The behavior of \"this\" when function bar is called is baffling me. See the code below. Is there any way to arrange for \"this\" to be a plain old js object in

Answer 1

You may use Function.apply on the function to set what this should refer to:

$("#thing").after($("
click me
").click(function() {
    barf.apply(document); // now this refers to the document
});