#js this

[eddiecoweyesdiass]

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What is this is?

Sooooo much confusion over such a simple word.  To the best of my shallow grasp this refers to the object that a method or function is being called upon.  Typically you call it in this form - object.method(); in the method block the key word this would refer to the object from our model. yeah…. Confused yet? :)  To make it a little more murky lets talk about the .apply() method. Now you can use this for any non-method function, the first argument identified in apply(arg1) is now explicitly the this object being referenced in the function that apply is being called upon. ex— function.apply(arg1); To take it a step further, any other arguments included after arg1 are treated as arguments for the function – function.apply(arg1, arg2, arg3);  Again arg1 one is treated as the this object regardless of type, so it could be a string, number, object, array.  arg2 & arg3 are passed on the function as arguments, if the function calls for three and only two are passed through apply then the third argument will be undefined.  Probably a little more in-depth and confusing than you cared to read but… there you go!  My very basic understanding of the this object in javascript.