jQuery: how to access parent function “this” from inside anonymous function?

Question

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$.fn.annotateEdit = function(image, note) {
    if (note) {
        this.note = note;
    } else {
        var newNote = new Object();
        newNote.id = \"new         


        

Answer 1

There is no dedicated language mechanism for it. The common pattern is to store the this in local (closure) variable (often named self or that) of the outer function:

var self = this;
var innerFunction = function() {
    self.x = 1;
};