jQuery Button Click 'this'

Question

Say we have a simple event button handler:

$( \"#aButton\" ).click(function() {
   console.log( \"tile\" + this.val() + \"clicked\" );
});

I re

Answer 1

The object that you clicked can be referred by this, so saying this.id will give you button's id "aButton". However, if you want to use jQuery's methods then you have to say $(this).attr('id') which will again give you "aButton". So you do have different mechanisms available to you but if you are using jQuery, it is preferable to use jQuery methods.