What is the event handler?

Question

$(".spoiler").on("click", "button", function(alasdair){ console.log(alasdair); });

is the function(alasdair){}

the event handler?

how would I pass multiple arguments to this function? for example function(alasdair, param1, param2) - tried but this doesn't seem to work

Answer 1 · 2019-01-08T11:42:20Z

January 8, 2019 11:42am

You can try this one:

$(button).on('click', function(e) {
  console.log(e);
  console.log(e.target);
});

The event handler doesn't accept direct passing param. So you must try to define them inside a function:

$(button).on('click', function(e) {
  var buttonText = $(this).html();
  console.log(buttonText)
});

You are running jQuery. So that's enough. If you move to ES6, you should learn more about arrow function.

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