Using this in event handler in strict javascript?

Question

Suppose you have a routine like the following to wire up click event handlers

getElements(\".board>div\").forEach(function(elem){
  elem.addEventListener(\"cl         


        

Answer 1

Your use of this is valid. To suppress the this errors in your event handler add /*jshint validthis: true */ to the top of the function.

Found that here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16553290/552067