Passing the elements event using jQuery?

I am trying to pass the elements "event" into a JavaScript function click using jQuery.

INLINE:

This is easy when doing it directly (inline).

<a href="#" onclick="ToggleMinimize('Hello World', event)">Click Me</a>

USING JQUERY:

But how do you do it using jQuery?

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    function ToggleMinimize(title, e) 
    {
        // ...various execution code would be here ... //
    }

    jQuery(window).load(function() {

        // How do I "get at" the "event" object for the element & pass it into the functi开发者_JAVA技巧on definition?
        jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").bind('click', ToggleMinimize);
    })
-->
</script>

Thanking you ahead of time!

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Following on from what a lot of the other guys have shown regarding passing data to an event function, there is a specific method for this, you can pass a full object map this way per bind.

Also bare in mind that jQuery normalises the event object before you receive it, so it is a little different, see: http://api.jquery.com/category/events/event-object/

function ToggleMinimize(e) {
    // ...various execution code would be here ... //
    // e.data contains the data object map
    // e.data.msg == "Hello World"
}

jQuery(window).load(function() {       
    jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").bind('click', {'msg': "Hello World"}, ToggleMinimize);
});

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You don't have to, it's already the first agument, like this:

function ToggleMinimize(e) {
    // ...various execution code would be here ... //
}
jQuery(window).load(function() {       
    jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").bind('click', ToggleMinimize);
});

If you want to also pass a title, then use an anonymous function, like this:

function ToggleMinimize(title, e) {
  // ...various execution code would be here ... //
}
jQuery(window).load(function() {       
  jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").click(function(e) {
    ToggleMinimize("some title", e);
  });
});

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Personally I'd use a data attribute, like this:

<a href="#" class="chatDialog-toggle-button" data-title"Hello World">Click Me</a>

Then access it like this:

function ToggleMinimize(e) {
  var title = jQuery(this).data("title");
}
jQuery(window).load(function() {       
    jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").click(ToggleMinimize);
});

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You can send an anonymous function which executs ToggleMinimize():

jQuery(window).load(function() {
    jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").bind('click', function(e) {
          ToggleMinimize( "Hello World", e);
    });
})

or you can have ToggleMinimize return a function, so you can pass Hello World into it.

function ToggleMinimize(title) {
    return function(e){ alert(title); alert(e.target); }
}

jQuery(window).load(function() {
    jQuery(".chatDialog-toggle-button").bind('click', ToggleMinimize( "Hello World") );
})

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You can do it this way:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.chatDialog-toggle-button').bind('click', function(event) {
      ToggleMinimize(event);
  });
});