Help on binding mouseover with jquery.

[Teensweb]

Alright, the problem I face now is simple and silly: I need to make some elements show up when another element is hovered, well this is simple, to understand where my problem arises, take a look at the below code:

function builder(){
....
$(myelement).bind('mouseenter',function(){el.slideout()});
....
}

Here, slideout() is a well defined custom function for a class of which el is a member.
Now, the problem is, the function builder is called everytime another parent and child system is built, so the el (which is a global variable) changes on each call of the function which means I lose the link between my previous parent and child. Is there any possible way to overcome this problem?
I guess(but I am not sure) that the problem can be solved if el is declared as a local variable of builder() but then, how would I access that variable inside the function(){} in the bind?

[descalzo]

Insufficient information to make a meaningful suggestion.

[Teensweb]

I'll elaborate- el is an object and I want to access one its member functions(namely slideout) from the function(){} block in my above code.
I thought I could overcome the problem by assigning el to a global variable but since el changes everytime the parent function is called, the glocal changes too,so I can't attach a establish relation between an element and its parent.

[descalzo]

What you need is a closure.

[Teensweb]

Oh thanx, I worked it out using a closure but is it the only way to work around the prob?

[Teensweb]

BTW, can someone tell me how to bind an event to multiple objects through a for loop?
At first I tried going simple like:

function somefunc(){
var id;
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
$("#"+id+i).bind('mouseleave', function(){});
}

And after realizing that the bind worked only for the last element of the loop(which obviously is not what I want), I changed it to

function mbind(sId){
  return function(){
  $("#"+sId).bind('mouseleave', function(){});}
}
function somefunc(){
var id;
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
(mbind(id+i))();  
}

expecting it would now work for all elements in the loop, but hell no!
Can anyone help me with this?

[descalzo]

The value of id is undefined in both cases.

[Teensweb]

Come on dude, don't be so obtuse! Do you really think that I would play with an undefined variable to make such a fuss? I skipped the defining part there since that's not where my problem arises. What I am still asking is: how to bind the event to all elements on the loop?

[descalzo]

Dude, if you don't post your complete code, nobody can tell where you are going wrong.

[Teensweb]

Alright then consider that the statement: var id;
is replaced by: var id="sl_";
in both of my above code blocks.