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How to pass arguments to events like on:click in Svelte

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Svelte events are the way we add interactivity to components in Svelte. A common issue with Svelte events is adding arguments to functions called within them. For example, suppose we have a basic counter, which increases any time the user clicks on it:

<script> // we write export let to say that this is a property // that means we can change it later! let x = 0; const addToCounter = function() { ++x; } </script> <button id="counter" on:click={addToCounter}>{x}</button>

This works fine, but let’s say we want to change it so that we increase the counter by a certain amount whenever it is clicked. We might try changing the code to something like this:

<script> // we write export let to say that this is a property // that means we can change it later! let x = 0; const addToCounter = function(amount) { x += amount; } </script> <button id="counter" on:click={addToCounter(5)}>{x}</button>

But this WONT work - instead we need to change our event to contain a function instead. To add arguments to our addToCounter function, we have to do something like this instead:

<button id="counter" on:click={() => addToCounter(5)}>{x}</button>

Here, we call a function, which returns the value produced by addToCounter. This also works for events, so if you want to pass the event or e object to your function, you could do something like this:

<button id="counter" on:click={(e) => addToCounter(e)}>{x}</button>
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