function called on page load not jquery .click

Question

This function gets called on page load, not when .somebutton is clicked. I'm not sure why. I want to be able to pass the variables so that I may use this function in multiple places with different values. Thank you very much.

var i = "this be i";
var u = "this be u";

function dosomething (var1, var2){
    console.log(var1 + " and " + var2);
}

$(".somebutton").click(dosomething(i,u));

Answer 1

You are passing value returned by dosomething(i,u) to click handler. This is why it ise executing without clicking, it is happening as soon as you call your function (that is: dosomething(i,u)). You need to wrap your function call inside anonymous function:

$(".somebutton").click(function() { dosomething(i,u); } );