jQuery Button Click 'this'

Question

Say we have a simple event button handler:

$( \"#aButton\" ).click(function() {
   console.log( \"tile\" + this.val() + \"clicked\" );
});

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Answer 1

Use $(this) to obtain the clicked element.

$("#aButton").click(function() {
    console.log("tile " + $(this).val() + " clicked");
});

In addition, you can note that $(this)[0] === this

this should can be used when using built in JavaScript methods, such as .addEventListener(). Using this in this context will return the Node that triggered the event.