newbie question: who clicked on me?

**Lee** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

On Jun 3, 4:47 pm, oddvark <dgrd...@yahoo. comwrote:

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.
>
Heres an example of what I'm doing:
>
jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()
{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});
>
I would like it to be the same function just in one part it has to do
one thing if the sender is something otherwise it does something
else. Thanks!

I do not know delphi but this sounds similar:

<body>
<input type="button" id="buttona" name="buttona" value="Button A"
onclick="dosome thing(this)">
<input type="button" id="buttonb" name="buttonb" value="Button B"
onclick="dosome thing(this)">

<script>
function dosomething(o) {
if(o.id == "buttona") {
do something
} else {
do something else
}
}
</script>
</body>

**RobG** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

On Jun 4, 7:47 am, oddvark <dgrd...@yahoo. comwrote:

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.
>
Heres an example of what I'm doing:
>
jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()

If you want information specifically about jQuery, ask in a jQuery
forum. If you want to know how to do it generically using javascript,
then this is the place.

{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});
>
I would like it to be the same function just in one part it has to do
one thing if the sender is something otherwise it does something
else.

The event object related to the click event has properties of either
target (W3C event model) or srcElement (IE event model).

There is a good introduction to events at the link below that will
give you enough to get started:

<URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introevents.html >

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Rob

**oddvark** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

Unfortunately I cant pass in the object as a parameter to the call.
The click function takes no parameters.

**oddvark** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

On Jun 3, 3:44 pm, RobG <rg...@iinet.ne t.auwrote:

On Jun 4, 7:47 am, oddvark <dgrd...@yahoo. comwrote:
>

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.

>

Heres an example of what I'm doing:

>

jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()

>
If you want information specifically about jQuery, ask in a jQuery
forum. If you want to know how to do it generically using javascript,
then this is the place.
>

{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});

>

I would like it to be the same function just in one part it has to do
one thing if the sender is something otherwise it does something
else.

>
The event object related to the click event has properties of either
target (W3C event model) or srcElement (IE event model).
>
There is a good introduction to events at the link below that will
give you enough to get started:
>
<URL:http://www.quirksmode. org/js/introevents.htm l>
>
--
Rob

Thanks Rob. Let me try the srcElement property.

**Lee** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

On Jun 3, 7:46 pm, oddvark <dgrd...@yahoo. comwrote:

On Jun 3, 3:44 pm, RobG <rg...@iinet.ne t.auwrote:
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>

On Jun 4, 7:47 am, oddvark <dgrd...@yahoo. comwrote:

>

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.

>

Heres an example of what I'm doing:

>

jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()

>

If you want information specifically about jQuery, ask in a jQuery
forum. If you want to know how to do it generically using javascript,
then this is the place.

>

{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});

>

I would like it to be the same function just in one part it has to do
one thing if the sender is something otherwise it does something
else.

>

The event object related to the click event has properties of either
target (W3C event model) or srcElement (IE event model).

>

There is a good introduction to events at the link below that will
give you enough to get started:

>

<URL:http://www.quirksmode. org/js/introevents.htm l>

>

--
Rob

>
Thanks Rob. Let me try the srcElement property.- Hide quoted text -
>
- Show quoted text -

oh, ok try:

<body>
<input type="button" id="buttona" name="buttona" value="Button A"
onclick="dosome thing()">
<input type="button" id="buttonb" name="buttonb" value="Button B"
onclick="dosome thing()">

<script>
function dosomething() {
if(event.srcEle ment.id == "buttona") {
do something
} else {
do something else
}
}
</script>

**Stanimir Stamenkov** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT), /oddvark/:

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.
>
Heres an example of what I'm doing:
>
jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()
{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});

As others have noted the W3C standard Event [1] interface has a
'target' property. IE's event [2] however doesn't support it but
has a 'srcElement' serving the same purpose. As you seem to use
jQuery you may take a look at its documentation [3]. There you'll
find it normalizes this difference allowing you to use it uniformly.

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Eve nts-Event>
[2] <http://msdn.microsoft. com/en-us/library/ms535863(VS.85) .aspx>
[3] <http://docs.jquery.com/Types#Event>,
<http://docs.jquery.com/Types/Event>

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**Stanimir Stamenkov** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:43:39 -0700 (PDT), /oddvark/:

Unfortunately I cant pass in the object as a parameter to the call.
The click function takes no parameters.

You're wrong. Check with your documentation
<http://docs.jquery.com/Events/click#fn>:

Arguments:
fn Function
A function to bind to the click event on each of the matched
elements.
>
function callback(eventO bject) {
this; // dom element
}

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Stanimir

**Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Lee wrote:

>function dosomething() {
> if(event.srcEle ment.id == "buttona") {

>
This will break with a TypeError in !(MSHTML || Opera) because `event'
cannot be resolved. [...]

Correction: It will be a ReferenceError.

PointedEars
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**=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2E_Vicario=22?=** · Jun 27 '08, 07:13 PM

Re: newbie question: who clicked on me?

oddvark escribió:

Hi I have a simple question. From a click event, how do I find out
what element triggered it? In delphi there was a property called
"sender" which was the sender.
>
Heres an example of what I'm doing:
>
jQuery('#button A, #buttonB').bind ('click', function()
{
if sender is buttonA
do something
else
do something else.
});

In jQuery I believe it is:

$(this)

I can't find the exact documentation page but I've seen it in some of
the examples like:

.bind() | jQuery API Documentation

http://docs.jquery.com/Events/bind#typedatafn

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