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

I just stumbled upon this old question.

For new browsers (find support here: https://caniuse.com/?search=querySelectorAll)

My solution would be:

function clickFunction(event) {
  // code here
}

for (let elm of document.querySelectorAll("a")) {
  elm.onclick = clickFunction;
}

This is optimized to not create a new function for each element.

Will work on IE9 and up.