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What properties can I use with event.target?

I need to identify elements from which events are fired.

Using event.target gets the respective element.

What properties can I use from there?

  • href
  • id
  • nodeName

I cannot find a whole lot of info on it, even on the jQuery pages, so here is to hoping someone can complete the above list.

EDIT:

These may be helpful: selfHTML node properties and selfHTML HTML properties

Solution

  • event.target returns the DOM element, so you can retrieve any property/ attribute that has a value; so, to answer your question more specifically, you will always be able to retrieve nodeName, and you can retrieve href and id, provided the element has a href and id defined; otherwise undefined will be returned.

    However, inside an event handler, you can use this, which is set to the DOM element as well; much easier.

    $('foo').bind('click', function () {
    // inside here, `this` will refer to the foo that was clicked
});