jQuery.click() vs onClick

Question

I have a huge jQuery application, and I\'m using the below two methods for click events.

First method

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Answer 1

The first method of using onclick is not jQuery but simply Javascript, so you do not get the overhead of jQuery. The jQuery way can expanded via selectors if you needed to add it to other elements without adding the event handler to each element, but as you have it now it is just a question if you need to use jQuery or not.

Personally since you are using jQuery I would stick with it as it is consistent and does decouple the markup from the script.