Could somebody explain the use of the "event" parameter used in the function?

Still having a little trouble with this, only because I'm not quite getting how the parameter is actually passed in here.

In C++, at least, when you define a function initially you add possible arguments to that function. So:

event.doSomething();
}

Would be using event as a placeholder, and whenever you actually called that function again you'd place the actual event within the parentheses to look something like this:

function(button.click)

Then the code would run as:

button.click.doSomething();

In this case I'm not sure how you're defining that the click event be used as the event within the function's arguments. Does any function added in the args of a click event automatically fill in a single given parameter with the click event itself? What if you give that anonymous function two arguments, so it looks like this:

function(event, thing)

What populates in the second parameter? Or does that not work in this case? Are there instances when passing two arguments into an anonymous function will work? How is that defined?

Sorry if I'm not making sense, I appreciate your help.

EDIT: So I just tested out my last example, and console.log(thing) returns "undefined", so it does look like passing a second argument in doesn't work for a click event. Additionally I was able to confirm it's not keyword-based by changing "function(event)" to "function(test)" and running "console.log(test)" still returned the click event. So I was able to figure some of this out, but it's still odd to me how the argument is passed in. Is it just sort of:

"When using the .click event of an element, if you pass in an anonymous function as the first argument, you can include up to one argument. If you do, that argument will be populated by the data from the click event."

?

I'm just having trouble understanding the syntax.

the click is the event

the function is what happens when the event is fired

but the "event" parameter just looks separated from the click itself.

how does the "event" parameter link to the click event?

thanks in advance

Click is a jquery event handler. When the browsers receives a click event on a target, in this case "#imageGallery a", it calls the event handler, which is our anonymous function. Event data is capture by the browser, and you can decide to pass the event object into the function. In this example, you passed it as event, it's often common to see it passed as just simply e, in which case it becomes e.preventDefault().

The event data is there, whether you capture it or not. It's just something handled by the javascript executed in the browser.

Does that make sense?

No problem!