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Kevin Jenkins
12,630 PointsWhy can't we use playButton.onclick = playlist.play?
We can typically do element.onclick = functionRef; But in this case, we're creating an additional anonymous function to call playlist.play. Any reason?
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Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsBecause later in that video he passes arguments/parameters to an additional/second function.
If you just pass the function reference, you can only have one function and you can't specify the arguments/parameters (I believe onclick will just send the event object).
Kevin Jenkins
12,630 PointsGot it! That makes sense :)