How do you catch a click event with plain Javascript?

Question

I know that when using jQuery you can do $(\'element\').click(); to catch the click event of an HTML element, but how do you do that with plain Javascript?

Answer 1

Thanks to vanilla js

document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {

// If the clicked element doesn't have the right selector, bail
if (!event.target.matches('input')) return;

// Don't follow the link
event.preventDefault();

// Log the clicked element in the console
console.log(event.target);

}, false);

This also show which element is c