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1. Placing a Click event on an achor tag in html from javascript?    stackoverflow.com

Can anyone help, seem to have an issue placing a onclick event of an anchor tag, it works on an image.. I have this

this.whereAreWe = document.getElementById('where_are_we');
this.whereAreWe.onclick = this.whereAreWe;

2. Is there a way to detect a click anywhere on a page except for a certain region?    stackoverflow.com

Here is my problem, I'm designing a website that allows you to select a certain item from a list by clicking on it using the onClick attribute. I would like to ...

3. IE not firing (window|document).onclick event when clicking on a child iFrame    stackoverflow.com

I've got a simple dropdown menu that I want to hide whenever you click anywhere on the page (not on the menu). This works fine in FF and IE until ...

4. In Firefox, double-clicking on an a tag with href set to # but with onclick set to bring us to another page will effectively make us remain on the cu...    stackoverflow.com

Suppose we have the ff. in a.html:

<script>
  function onClick() {
    // Do some important stuff and then...
    location = "b.html";
  }
</script>
<a href="#" onclick="onClick();">Link</a>

5. A tag and click events href="javascript: my_function()" vs onclick="my_function()" or     stackoverflow.com

There are several ways to define click action on anchor tag like:

<a href="javascript: void(0)" onclick="funciton_X()">click here</a>

<a href="javascript: funciton_X()">click here</a>

<a id="a_tag" href="javascript: void(0)">click here</a>  
<script ...

6. If user clicks on one link then quickly on another, the second link's onclick doesn't fire. How do we avoid this?    stackoverflow.com

Apologies for the title, I found it hard to define my question succintly and that was the best I could do. If someone wants to edit it to add a better ...

7. HTML + Javascript: Detecting where in a line of text a click occurred    stackoverflow.com

What's a good way to do this without wrapping each letter with <span> tags and binding onclick functions to each, or something silly like that?

8. Javascript onClick get the ID of the button clicked    stackoverflow.com

I want to find the id of the button which is being clicked, how to do it?

<button id="1" onClick="reply_click()"></button>
<button id="2" onClick="reply_click()"></button>
<button id="3" onClick="reply_click()"></button>

function reply_click()
{
}

9. Get Clicked

from

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As a relative beginner with JS, I am struggling to try and find a solution to this. I need to find out which line of an unordered list was clicked

<ul onclick="alert(this.clicked.line.id);">
 ...

10. Onclick to iframe? Filling anchor on same mouse click? Loading separate URL in to sidebar without any extra input?    stackoverflow.com

I am attempting to have a link load an article from my domain in to an iframe. I understand that it is usually easy to link using: <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://www.google.com');return false">Google</a> But ...

11. How do I emulate a click on a div then fire the onclick event in webview programatically?    stackoverflow.com

I am new to JavaScript,just created a cocoa app with a webView embedded which display the gmail iPhone site.What i want to do here is to schedule a timer method, then ...

12. Prevent table row onclick event to fire when clicking button inside the row    stackoverflow.com

I have a table row with ONCLICK event (that toggles additional data below). Inside one of the row cells I have a button (when clicked is performing an AJAX action). When I ...

13. How do I get the absolute position of a mouse click from an onClick event on the body?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to get the absolute position (top and left) of a mouse click relative to the browser/body, not any parent elements within the body. I have a listener bound to ...

14. programmatically click an input button in another web page?    stackoverflow.com

I know there have been several similar questions, but I haven't seen an answer to my specific need: Is there a way to click a button in a separately launched ...

15. Perform Javascript action after reset button handles click    stackoverflow.com

How do I perform an action immediately after an <input type="reset"/> has already reset the form elements?

16. Detecting Href Is Clicked    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to detect if certain element is clicked on onbeforeunload. I can't get it to work. Below is examples of the Javascript code and HTML code on the project (Please ...

17. Javascript onclick event handler - how do I get the reference to the clicked item?    stackoverflow.com

My HTML:

<div id="x" onclick="clickHandler(event)">
   <div id="button1">This turns green</div>
   <div id="button2">This turns blue</div>
</div>

18. How do you catch a click event with plain Javascript?    stackoverflow.com

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?

19. onClick="function(' whats the value of the anchor tag just clicked? ' )"    codingforums.com

Title basically says it. I need to get the object that was just clicked, to insert into a JavaScript function. I've tried "function('this')" and similar things, but it doesn't work. I'm sure this is REALLY easy to do, but I don't know it and I have no idea what to search for. Thanks

20. Javascript OnClick Href IFrame, but URL Returns After one Click    sitepoint.com