How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element?

Question

I\'m an experienced Java programmer but am looking at some JavaScript/HTML5 stuff for the first time in about a decade. I\'m completely stumped on what should be the simple

Answer 1

Probably very late to the answer but I just read this while preparing for my 70-480 exam, and found this to work -

var elem = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
elem.onclick = function() { alert("hello world"); }

Notice the event as onclick instead of onClick.

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