how to get the object which user clicked

[bingbin zhang]

as the title,
how to get the object which user clicked？

please show the code of javascript,thanks a lot

my solution is poor:
my javaScript code is as follows:

<div id="aaa" [I]onclick[/I]="myOnClick('aaa');">
<script language=javascript>
  function myOnClick(myId){
    var myDiv=document.getElementById(myId);
  }
</script>

any solution else? thanks a lot
[ April 16, 2008: Message edited by: bingbin zhang ]

[Laxmikant Ruikar]

Try following code

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">


function doSomething(e) {

var targ;
if(!e) var e = window.event;

if (e.target) targ = e.target;

else if (e.srcElement) targ = e.srcElement;

if (targ.nodeType == 3) // defeat Safari bug
targ = targ.parentNode;
alert(targ.id?targ.id:targ.name);
}


Document onclik = doSomething;


</SCRIPT>

[bingbin zhang]

thank you very much!
i will try it as soon as i get home~~
would you like you explain it for me?
what does 'e' mean?and what do the attributes of 'e' mean?

[Bear Bibeault]

e is an instance of Event. In real browsers, it's passed to the event listeners. In IE, it's tacked onto the window instance.

[Bear Bibeault]

The properties of the Event instance also depend upon browser. Standards-compliant browsers follow the W3C layout of this object -- IE made up its own layout.

Because of such difference in how real browsers and IE handle events, if you are going to be doing event handling in your pages, it's best to adopt a JavaScript library that normalizes these differences on your behalf. Otherwise, you end up writing one set of code for IE, and one for standards-compliant browsers. Both the Prototype and jQuery libraries do this for you.
[ April 16, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[bingbin zhang]

the problem is soluted.thanks a lot~~