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Which element was clicked?

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How to get a reference to the element that was clicked to fire an event. The code is gratefully cribbed from Quirksmode.org.

Updated to reflect how I actually implement this, slightly different from PPK's original.

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<html>
<head>
<script>
/* http://quirksmode.org */
function getEvent (e) {
  var event = e || window.event;
  if( ! event.target ) {
    event.target = event.srcElement
      }
  return event;
}
</script>
 
</head>
<body>
<a href="#fred" id="fred" onclick="alert(getEvent(event).target)">foo</a>
</body>
</html>

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Posted By: frontendengineer on May 4, 2012: This returns the href value of the tag not the html element tag.

check here

http://tinkerbin.com/IMfx83Su

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