jquery: help difference between domready and $(function…

hey guys, i found a very intersting website template that has in it's header file the following lines:

(function($){
 $(function(){

…normal jquery

 }); // end of document ready
})(jQuery); // end of jQuery name space 

what does that mean? i thought if i want to use domready i hav to write:

$(document).ready(function(){

where is the difference and can i change that? 开发者_Python百科thank you for your help

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$(function() { is a just a shortcut for $(document).ready(function() {, they are equivalent. The (function($){ .... })(jQuery); portion is just for compatibility, so that $ is the jQuery object inside the scope (even if it's something else outside).

Something to note here: document.ready handlers receive jQuery as their first argument, so the site's code could be more concisely expressed as:

jQuery(function($){
  …normal jquery
}); // end of document ready

So the answer your question: do you have to change it? nope, use whichever format you prefer...I prefer $(function() { }); because it's less to type and I do it a hundred times a day. If you find $(document).ready(function() { }); much clearer, stick with that, but they behave the same...so use whichever is clearer to you and your team.

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The DOM ready portion of the code you cited:

$(function() {
  // Document is ready let's write some jQuery!
});

Is entirely equivalent to:

$(document).ready(function () {
   // Document is ready let's write some jQuery!  
});

The part that wraps the DOM ready stuff is there for a completely separate purpose:

(function($) {
  ...
})(jQuery); // end of jQuery namespace

The above is actually a function invocation. You're calling an anonymous function and passing in the jQuery object as an argument, which is then assigned to the parameter $. This ensures that all of the code inside (where I've got ...) can use $ knowing that it refers to jQuery.

This is a failsafe that people use because some other JavaScript code could have assigned the $ variable to something other than jQuery within the global namspace. By wrapping your jQuery code in a function (remember -- only functions have scope in JavaScript) that assigns jQuery to $, you're safe.