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user736893
user736893

Reputation:

Get clicked element using jQuery on event?

I'm using the following code to detect when a dynamically generated button is clicked.

$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function () {
    alert("test");
});

Normally, if you just did $('.appDetails').click() you could use $(this) to get the element that was clicked on. How would I accomplish this with the above code?

For instance:

$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function () {
    var clickedBtnID = ??????
    alert('you clicked on button #' + clickedBtnID);
});

Upvotes: 128

Views: 277913

Answers (6)

jpeggtulsa
jpeggtulsa

Reputation: 71

$(".masonry__img").click((e) => {
      console.log(e.currentTarget.currentSrc);
});

This will add an onClick handler to each image with the class masonry__img.

Upvotes: 1

iamnonso
iamnonso

Reputation: 103

There are many ways you can do that

The first method is by using the javascript target

$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function (event) {
    var clickebtn = target.event.id;
});

Upvotes: 2

iamnonso
iamnonso

Reputation: 103

A simple way is to pass the data attribute to your HTML tag.

Example:

<div data-id='tagid' class="clickElem"></div>

<script>
$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function () {
   var clickedBtnID = $(this).attr('data');
   alert('you clicked on button #' + clickedBtnID);
});
</script>

Upvotes: 0

bipen
bipen

Reputation: 36531

As simple as it can be

Use $(this) here too

$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function () {
   var clickedBtnID = $(this).attr('id'); // or var clickedBtnID = this.id
   alert('you clicked on button #' + clickedBtnID);
});

Upvotes: 168

waffleau
waffleau

Reputation: 1134

The conventional way of handling this doesn't play well with ES6. You can do this instead:

$('.delete').on('click', event => {
  const clickedElement = $(event.target);

  this.delete(clickedElement.data('id'));
});

Note that the event target will be the clicked element, which may not be the element you want (it could be a child that received the event). To get the actual element:

$('.delete').on('click', event => {
  const clickedElement = $(event.target);
  const targetElement = clickedElement.closest('.delete');

  this.delete(targetElement.data('id'));
});

Upvotes: 56

Bastian Rang
Bastian Rang

Reputation: 2187

You are missing the event parameter on your function.

$(document).on("click",".appDetails", function (event) {
    alert(event.target.id);
});

Upvotes: 72

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