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howto detect which button is click

 
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hi , good day ..let assume i have ten buttons as follow, how can i know which button was pressed ?



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Add an onclick handler?
 
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eric, i want when user click the button , then we can get the button name which have been clicked
 
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The easiest approach is adding an onclick handler



that stores the value in a variable.

The other approach is the following, I am not sure if it is crossbrowser friendly, have not tried it.



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thanks , eric
 
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