knockoutjs get element id through click event

Question

I\'m using knockoutjs and I currently have something in my view that looks like this:

Answer 1

You actually can get access to the event object via a KO click handler.

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var ViewModel = function() {
    this.log = function(data, event) {
        console.log("you clicked " + event.target.id);
    }
};
ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel());

http://jsfiddle.net/madcapnmckay/e8JPT/

Hope this helps.