In jquerys events this is the same as event.delegateTarget: api.jquery.com/event.delegateTarget/
this
event.delegateTarget
So you can use the arrow function to get access to the parent context and still access the element you have attached the listener to... Please don't stop using this just because you don't know how a lib works.
$('p').on('click', (evt) => { console.log($(evt.delegateTarget).text()) })
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In jquerys events
this
is the same asevent.delegateTarget
: api.jquery.com/event.delegateTarget/So you can use the arrow function to get access to the parent context and still access the element you have attached the listener to... Please don't stop using
this
just because you don't know how a lib works.