JavaScript onClick addClass

Question

I am kind of confused why my code doesn\'t work correctly, I hope You will tell me what I\'ve done wrong. I want to highlight navigation tab while clicked.

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Answer 1

This code will highlight the navigation tab without needing to include onclick in the HTML, though it doesn't remove the background color if another tab is clicked.

    document.onclick = function(event) {
         var target = event.target || event.srcElement;
         target.style.background = '#cf5c3f';
        };

https://codepen.io/mdmcginn/pen/BwrNaj/