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Vanilla JavaScript version of jQuery .click

rated 0 times [ 96] [ 2] / answers: 1 / hits: 107267 / 13 Years ago, mon, september 26, 2011, 12:00:00

So maybe I'm just not looking in the right places but I can't find a good explanation of how to do the equivalent of jQuery's

$('a').click(function(){

    // code here

});

in plain old JavaScript?

Basically I want to run a function every time an a tag is clicked but I don't have the ability to load jQuery into the page to do it in the way above so I need to know how to do it using plain JavaScript.

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answered 13 Years ago estefanib · Accepted Answer

Working Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6ZNws/

Html

<a href=something>CLick Here</a>

<a href=something>CLick Here</a>

<a href=something>CLick Here</a>

Javascript:

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for(var z = 0; z < anchors.length; z++) {

    var elem = anchors[z];   

    elem.onclick = function() {

        alert(hello);

        return false;

    };

}