Element tagName Property - Using the tagName property together with the event.target property to find out which element triggered a specified event: - Javascript DOM

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Element tagName Property - Using the tagName property together with the event.target property to find out which element triggered a specified event:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body onclick="myFunction(event)">

<p>click me</p>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<button>This is a button</button>

<span>A span element</span>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction(event) {/*  w  w w.j  av a  2 s. c om*/
    var x = event.target;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "Triggered by a " + x.tagName + " element";
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

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