Closure Failure

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How do I make an closure failure?

This is a fairly common pattern in a web page. Unfortunately, it does not work the way we expect. Instead of the paragraphs reporting 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 when clicked, they always report 5 which was the value of p when exiting the for loop. The for loop exit occurs long before the click of the paragraph.. What is a closure failure? How do you make a closure failure? This script and codes were developed by Mobile Application Design-Development on 10 August 2022, Wednesday.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html >
<head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Closure Failure</title>
</head>
<body> <h2>Click on one of the five paragraphs below to see the number of the paragraph</h2>
<h3>The Number FAILS because of closures</h3> <script src="js/index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Closure Failure - Script Codes JS Codes

(function clickPara ( ){ for(var p=0; p < 5; p++){ var para = document.createElement("p"); para.innerHTML = "Some text"; document.body.appendChild(para); para.addEventListener("click", function(ev){ alert(p); //this creates the closure. //the variable p is now stored as something to reference later on //when the user clicks any paragraph //we are accessing the loop variable p }) } //this will override the last value of p (5) with 723. //p = 723; //if we comment out the above line then p will be 5, regardless of the paragraph
})();
//instead of making this an IIFE we could just call the function
//clickPara();
Closure Failure - Script Codes
Closure Failure - Script Codes
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Uploaded August 10, 2022
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