Get the ID of an element clicked on

[Keith.P Smith]

Hi guys

I have a snippet of JS here which I would have expected to return the ID of the element for example say <image id='myImgTag'> I have clicked on, but for some reason it returns [ID:] where's I'd expect (hope) for something like [ID:myImgTag].

function getClickElement(evt) {

	var elem;
	if (!evt) var evt = window.event;
	if (evt.target) elem = evt.target;
	else if (evt.srcElement) elem = evt.srcElement;
  

	alert("ID:"+elem.id);

Any most likely obvious reasons this does not work and if possible, how do I get it to work?

Cheers in advance

[Eric Pascarello]

How are you calling getClickElement?

Eric

[Bear Bibeault]

Event handling, and just about everything else, is so much easier when you use jQuery to factor away all the IE-proprietary nonsense:

$('#theTarget').click(function(){ alert(this.id) });

Life is too short to fuss around with if (IE this) if (IE that) and so on...