Javascript: how to pass parameters to callback function

callback, javascript

Solution

You can call it as follows,

var callBack = function(param1, param2) { ... }
window.setTimeout( function(){callBack('foo','bar');}, 1000 );

Problem

I'm stumped on how to correctly pass parameters to a callback function without immediately calling that function. For example, this will work as expected: ``` var callBack = function() { ... } window.setTimeout( callBack, 1000 ); ``` But this will accidentally call `callBack`: ``` var callBack = function(param1, param2) { ... } window.setTimeout( callBack('foo','bar'), 1000 ); ```

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