A closure is the combination of a function bundled together (enclosed) with references to its surrounding state (the lexical environment). In other words, a closure gives you access to an outer function’s scope from an inner function. In JavaScript, closures are created every time a function is created, at function creation time.(MDN)
// global scope var e = 10; functionsum(a){ returnfunction(b){ returnfunction(c){ // outer functions scope returnfunction(d){ // local scope return a + b + c + d + e; } } } }
functionsetupHelp() { var helpText = [ {'id': 'email', 'help': 'Your e-mail address'}, {'id': 'name', 'help': 'Your full name'}, {'id': 'age', 'help': 'Your age (you must be over 16)'} ];
for (var i = 0; i < helpText.length; i++) { var item = helpText[i]; document.getElementById(item.id).onfocus = function() { showHelp(item.help); } } }