How to get an element's ID from event.target

Question

Consider a piece of code that looks like the following:

$(\'body\').on(\'click\', function(e){

});

I know there is a way to get the elemen

Answer 1

You can use e.target.id. e.target represents DOM object and you can access all its property and methods.

$('body').on('click', function(e){
    alert(e.target.id);    
});

You can convert the DOM object to jQuery object using jQuery function jQuery(e.target) or $(e.target) to call the jQuery functions on it.