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detweiller
detweiller

Reputation: 157

How to get clicked element from the DOM using AngularJS?

In jQuery, I can get the element that was clicked in the DOM using the following

$(document).click(function(event) {
    var element = $(event.target);
    console.log(element);
    ....
}

How would I do the same with Angular? I've searched for it online but all of the solutions were related to elements that had an ng-click attribute like links and buttons. I'd like to listen to the click event for the entire DOM and then get the element that was clicked(p, li, a, span etc.) Is there anyway I can achieve this using Angular only or would I have to use jQuery?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1449

Answers (2)

sjm
sjm

Reputation: 5468

Place the ng-click on the body

 <body ng-click="go($event)">

In your controller:

 $scope.go = function($event){
     alert($event.currentTarget );
 };

Upvotes: 2

Newtt
Newtt

Reputation: 6200

From the docs https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngClick and https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/expression#-event-:

Event object is available as $event

html

<div ng-click="functionName()"></div>

js

$scope.functionName = function($event){}

Upvotes: 2

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