asked on 5/15/2011

Javascript detect ID clicked ?

Hi all,

Is it possible at all to detect if an id has been clicked?

For example: I want a link on a page containing an ID to be detected by javascript if it was click.

The javascript would look like this...

if (ID was clicked) {
alert("id was clicked");
}

something like that anyway..

Can this be done?

Thanks

JavaScript AJAX

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error77

5/16/2011

jordanrynard

5/15/2011

The best way to do it would be to just add a class to an element once it has been clicked (ex. 'clicked'), and then check to see if that element has the class 'clicked' during your check.

Are you using a library like jQuery, or just straight up javascript?

leakim971

5/15/2011

$("a").click(function() { if( $(this).attr("id") == "ID" ) {
    alert("id was clicked");
}});

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or if you create the link dynamically :

$("a").live("click", function() { if( $(this).attr("id") == "ID" ) {
    alert("id was clicked");
}});

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error77

5/16/2011

ASKER

Looks perfect but I need to change the code in the plugin js file so I don't think I can use JQuery for this.

What would the pure javascript translation be please?

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error77

5/16/2011

ASKER

Thanks !!!