Vanilla JavaScript version of jQuery .click

Question

So maybe I\'m just not looking in the right places but I can\'t find a good explanation of how to do the equivalent of jQuery\'s

$(\'a\').click(function(){
          


        

Answer 1

This will assign an onclick function to every a element.

var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
var linkClick = function() {
  //code here
};

for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++){
  links[i].onclick = linkClick;
}

You can see it in action here.