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Roshan
Roshan

Reputation: 1

jQuery's event.target not working from inside a function

<a href="javascript:getClassName();" class="link">Click here</a>

I know it is possible to get the class name with the code below:

$('a').click(function() {
    alert($(this).attr('class'));
})

I want to be able to use $(this) inside a function called getClassName() with the help of event.target. But, this doesn't seem to work. I always get an error:

target is undefined

The function that I'm using is:

function getClassName(event) {
    el = $(event.target);
    alert(el.attr('class'));
}

And I don't want to use the event.target binding on $(body).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (1)

Praveen Prasad
Praveen Prasad

Reputation: 32107

<a href="javascript:getClassName(this);" class="link">Click here</a>

Upvotes: 2

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