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

Posted by Johnny Garces
Johnny Garces
Courses Plus Student 8,551 Points

what does the word "bind" mean in this context?

I'm lost as to why we need to "bind" editTask, deleteTask, etc.

2 Answers

Sherly Chan
Sherly Chan
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Sherly Chan
Sherly Chan
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The event binding allows you to add an event handler for a specified event so that your chosen JavaScript function will be invoked when that event is triggered for the associated DOM element. http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/event-binding.html

Bruno Dias
Bruno Dias
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Bruno Dias
Bruno Dias
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Thank you for clarifying that. Your explanation was better than the instructor (he didn't explain the bind event at all).

Lucia Hsieh
Lucia Hsieh
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Lucia Hsieh
Lucia Hsieh
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Hello Johnny,

I am relatively new to JavaScript but I think this is what it means: I believe that the word "bind" means that you are grouping different actions together to act as one event. So in this context, editTask selects the edit button and allows the user to edit it if "edit-mode" is on, and if "edit-mode" is not on, then the user can't edit.

If a "bind" was not in place, then there is no actions that perform together.

I hope this makes sense.