Using the "this" keyword

[RamRod53]

So, I am new here and have a few questions about using the "this" keyword in Javascript. I am new to javascript but have much experience with C++. First question, is the "this" keyword just like using self? Secondly, if it is like self, and I use it in say a mouseover function, would the object using the mouseover function be like/self? Whenever I use this I am getting issues.

To give an overview, I have a box that I am resizing using CSS transitions and javascript. For this to work I have to change the width of many objects. I could go and make a function for each and every object, but that is not efficient. I would like a universal change width statement. But, whenever I use "this" and do the mouseover it just crashes and says "this" is a DOMWindow. I have included my function code because I cannot figure out why it is doing this, unless I am doing it wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

function mouseOut(event)
{
    this.width = "100px";
}

function mouseOver(event)
{
    this.width = "200px";
}

This will refer to the self only but it should be an elements or object, you should pass to your event like below:

<input name="c" type="checkbox"  id="hello" value="10" onclick="toogle(this,'10')"/>

Here this refer to the checkbox clicked. For onMouseout use like below

ex: mouseOut(this); //calling functon
    mouseOut(event) { event.width="100px"}

[RamRod53]

Thanks for the help. This fixed the issue. I think the issue is mostly with my IDE. It only allows me to set mouseOver(event) as the calling function and not mouseOver(this). Thanks again

[fxm]

The usual way of doing this is to change 'this' element onmouseover= and change it back onmouseout= (letting the browser shift and unshift "nearby" elements as needed).

If that is not enough (that is, if you need to change [not just shift] other elements - possibly a lot of them), you can use CSS.

[Note: the following is easier to do than this description makes it look.]

Assign all elements to be affected to the same class (let's call it 'base') and create a rule (let's call it 'basic') that styles elements using #selectors. You can then create a series of similar #selector-based rules (let's call them 'inA', 'inB', etc.) to match the element id='s that are going to trigger the action.

Each trigger element must have an onmouseover=do(this) and onmouseout=done().

The only code in function done() is to copy 'basic' to 'base'.
The code in function do(elem) uses the calling parameter to identify 'this' element and determine from its id= the appropriate rule ('inC' or whatever) that needs to be copied to 'base'.

Hi RamRod53,

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