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

This can be done:

$('body').on('click', 'a', function (e) {//you can do $(document) instead $(body)
    e.preventDefault();
    alert($(this).attr('id'));//<--this will find you the each id of ``
});