Very simple :
document.getElementById("YOUR_ID").onclick = function (e) {...}
The selector is what you want to select so lets say you have button called
<a href="#" id="button1">Button1</a>
The code to capure this is:
document.getElementById("button1").onclick = function (e) { alert('button1 clicked'); }
Hope that helps.
your idea to delegate the event to the window and then check if the "event.target" is a link, is one way to go (better would be document.body). The trouble here is that it won't work if you click on a child node of your element. Think:
<a href="#"><b>I am bold</b></a>
the target
would be the <b>
element, not the link. This means checking for e.target
won't work. So, you would have to crawl up all the dom tree to check if the clicked element is a descendant of a <a>
element.
Another method that requires less computation on every click, but costs more to initialize would be to get all <a>
tags and attach your event in a loop:
var links = Array.prototype.slice.call(
document.getElementsByTagName('a')
);
var count = links.length;
for(var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
links[i].addEventListener('click', function(e) {
//your code here
});
}
(PS: why do I convert the HTMLCollection to array? here's the answer.)
Some accepted answers dont work with nested elements like:
<a href="..."><font><u>link</u></font></a>
There is a basic solution for most cases: ```
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i in links)
{
links[i].onclick = function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var href = this.href;
// ... do what you need here.
}
}
You need to take into account that a link can be nested with other elements and want to traverse the tree back to the 'a' element. This works for me:
window.onclick = function(e) {
var node = e.target;
while (node != undefined && node.localName != 'a') {
node = node.parentNode;
}
if (node != undefined) {
console.log(node.href);
/* Your link handler here */
return false; // stop handling the click
} else {
return true; // handle other clicks
}
}
See e.g. https://jsfiddle.net/hnmdijkema/nn5akf3b/6/
I guess this simple code will work with jquery.
$("a").click(function(){
alert($(this).attr('href'));
});
Without JQuery:
window.onclick = function(e) {
if(e.target.localName=='a')
alert(e.target);
};
The above will produce the same result.
You can handle all click using window.onclick and then filter using event.target
Example as you asked:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onclick = function(e) { alert(e.target);};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://google.com">google</a>
<a href="http://yahoo.com">yahoo</a>
<a href="http://facebook.com">facebook</a>
</body>
</html>