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How to get the ID of the clicked button with onClick with JavaScript?

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To get the ID of the clicked button with onClick with JavaScript, we get the id property.

For instance, we write

const buttons = document.getElementsByTagName("button");

for (const button of buttons) {
  button.onclick = (e) => {
    console.log(e.target.id);
  };
}

to select the buttons with getElementsByTagName.

Then we loop through the buttons with a for-of loop.

In it, we set its onclick property to a function that logs the id of the button being clicked on.

onclick is called when we click on the button.

e.target is the element that trigged the event.

By John Au-Yeung

Web developer specializing in React, Vue, and front end development.

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