How to get an element's ID from event.target

Question

Consider a piece of code that looks like the following:

$(\'body\').on(\'click\', function(e){

});

I know there is a way to get the elemen

Answer 1

To get the attribute of a target element in JavaScript you would simply use:

e.target.getAttribute('id');

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10280487/5025060 for the subtle distinction between DOM properties and their attributes.