jQuery event.currentTarget get event target inner html
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>//w w w . ja v a2 s. c om <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("h1, p").click(function(event){ document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = event.currentTarget.innerHTML; }); }); </script> </head> <body> <p id="demo"></p> <h1>This is a heading</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p>Click on one of the HTML elements to alert its content.</p> </body> </html>