June 18, 2020

How to Pass Function Name as Parameter in Javascript

By Krishnaa JavaScript Questions 0 Comments

In this tutorial, you will learn how to pass function name as parameter in javascript. Passing a function is pretty much like passing a variable as a parameter. The function which is passed as a parameter to another function is generally known as a callback function.

A callback function is invoked inside another function to complete some sort of routine or action and you can also pass arguments to it if it requires some. Also, a function can take one or more callback functions as parameters.

In the following example, we have a counter and a button. Upon click of a button, we will pass myFunction1() as a callback function to myFunction2() which in turn will increment the counter. Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

We have 3 elements in the HTML file (div, button, and h1). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.

The button element and the h1 element have “Click Me” and “Counter” as innerText respectively.
We have done some basic styling using CSS and added the link to our style.css stylesheet inside the head element.
We have also included our javascript file script.js with a script tag at the bottom.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    
    <div>
        <button>Click Me</button>
        <h1>Counter</h1>
    </div>
    
    <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

body {
    text-align: center;
}

div {
    display: inline-block;
}

button {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 10px 20px;
}

Javascript

We have selected the button element and h1 element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in the btnClick and counter variables respectively.
We have a global variable count which has an initial value of 0.

We have attached a click event listener to the button element.
We have myFunction1() which is responsible for incrementing the value of count by 1 and returning it.
We have myFunction2() which takes a callback function as a parameter and sets its returned value as innerText of the h1 element.

In the click event handler function, we are calling myFunction2() and passing myFunction1() as a parameter.

let btnClick = document.querySelector('button');
let counter = document.querySelector('h1');

let count = 0;

btnClick.addEventListener('click', () => {
   myFunction2(myFunction1);
});


function myFunction1(){
    return count++;
}

function myFunction2(paramFunc){
    counter.innerText = paramFunc();
}

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