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Branko Zivanovic
2,684 PointsEmployee practice
How does jQuery know that employee is a actual object in employees.json?
1 Answer

jared eiseman
29,023 Pointsthe 'employee' variable is an argument within the $.each callback function. This can be named anything (jack, pencil, rainbow, employee, etc). But it always will represent the second argument of the callback, in this instance, each object in the json
Branko Zivanovic
2,684 PointsBranko Zivanovic
2,684 PointsThank you.Now I understand!
jared eiseman
29,023 Pointsjared eiseman
29,023 PointsGlad I could help :)