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

The answer of madcapnmckay is not completely correct. You can better use currentTarget: it will return the original bound element instead of a child element, when i.e. you have a div with nested elements in it.

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Update

As @Ryan mentioned - event.currentTarget is not available for IE8. For <= IE8 support you can use:

var target = (event.currentTarget) ? event.currentTarget : event.srcElement;