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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Traversing Elements with children

Posted by Yvonne Wood
Yvonne Wood
5,765 Points

function(taskListItem, checkBoxEventHandler) Is 'checkBoxEventHandler' arbitrary? Is the event Handler always 2nd arg?

This has always confused me about JavaScript as I come from a Java and C# background. It seems like the function args are a guessing game. How did he know that the 2nd arg should be the checkBoxEventHandler. I kind of get the first one as if you pass in an object you have clicked on or want to deal with that is the first param. Maybe this is base object stuff that I just am missing concepts for?

1 Answer

johnweinshel
johnweinshel
Courses Plus Student 61 Points

Do you mean 'does the param order matter for non-native functions?' If so, no, other than the obvious that the args will be interpreted according to the order of the params. No reason the function couldn't have been written function(checkBoxEventHandler, taskListItem).