onclick event not working in JavaScript

Question

I have some JavaScript code in an HTML page with a button. I have a function called \'click()\' that handles the onClick event of the button. The code for the button is as f

Answer 1

Today this also happened to me. The function name maybe conflicts with keywords. My case is scrape(). I change the function name, everything works fine.

Answer 2

Try fixing the capitalization. onclick instead of onClick

Reference: Mozilla Developer Docs

Answer 3

<script>
//$(document).ready(function () {
function showcontent() {
        document.getElementById("demo22").innerHTML = "Hello World";
}
//});// end of ready function
</script>

I had the same problem where onclick function calls would not work. I had included the function inside the usual "$(document).ready(function(){});" block used to wrap jquery scripts. Commenting this block out solved the problem.