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Miles Falk
Miles Falk
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Posted by Miles Falk
Miles Falk
6,566 Points

Arrow function syntax not working on this project

Dear Treehouse Community,

I am attempting to use arrow function syntax on this project but when I veer away from the regular anonymous functions I seem to return the window object and not the button I hoped for. Maybe this is just my misunderstanding of how 'this' works or my misinterpretation of the current lecture. Thanks in advance!

My code with a regular anonymous function:

$('button').on('click', function () { $('button').removeClass('selected'); $(this).addClass('selected'); });

My code with arrow function syntax :

$('button').on('click', () => { $('button').removeClass('selected'); $(this).addClass('selected'); });

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