jQuery anonymous function

Question

I have some code (below) which I wrote for a small piece of text to fade in out through a cycle of around 4 paragraphs. It works, but whenever I bring up the Web Inspector, it just tells me that it's an 'Anonymous function'. This is really annoying. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Btw, the bit that it hightlights as an anonymous function is:

slides[current].fadeOut("slow");
slides[target].fadeIn("slow");

The whole extract of code is here:

$(document).ready(function() {

var About = {
    init: function() {
        var slide_images = $('#widget p')
            slides = new Array(),
            delay = 5,
            current = 0;

        slide_images.each(function(index) {
            current = index;
            slides.push($(this));
        });

        var interval = setInterval(function() {
            target = (current < (slides.length - 1)) ? current + 1 : 0;

            slides[current].fadeOut("slow");
            slides[target].fadeIn("slow");

            current = target;
        }, delay * 750);

    }
} 
About.init();
});

I made a jsfiddle here.

Fix what? What's the problem? What did you expect? I don't see anything wrong on your code nor Chrome Dev Tools. — Fabrício Matté
– Fabrício Matté, Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18
Apart from the lacking comma after $('#widget p') which makes those globals of course. — Fabrício Matté
– Fabrício Matté, Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 12:19
Yeah, but everytime I bring up the Inspector, it tells me it's an anonymous function. I understand that it's not an error, but how can I stop it from coming up every time I bring up the dev tools? — Tom Oakley
– Tom Oakley, Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 12:29
Do you have a console.log anywhere in your code? Your fiddle and posted code does not generate any message on my console. — Fabrício Matté
– Fabrício Matté, Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 12:30

Grant Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-17 12:15:20Z

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Because it is an anonymous function, as opposed to a named function.

One potential solution could be to roll the code into a named function and reference that function by named for the init option.

answered Sep 17, 2012 at 12:15

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