How do I bind a click to an anchor without a framework (javascript)

Question

I know this is easily done in jQuery or any other framework, but that\'s not really the point. How do I go about \'properly\' binding a click event in pure javascript? I kno

Answer 1

If you need to assign only one click event, you can assign onclick:

If you have an ID:

myAnchor = document.getElementById("Anchor");
myAnchor.onclick = function() { myFunc(); return false; }

you can also walk through all anchors:

anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {   

 anchors[i].onclick = .....

}

There's also a document.getElementsByClassName to simulate jQuery's class selector but it is not supported by all browsers.

If it could be that you need to assign multiple events on one element, go with addEventListener shown by @Jordan and @David Dorward.