I am trying to change the innerHTML of my page to become the innerHTML of the element I click on, the only problem is that i want it to take the whole element such as:
<section class="homeItem" data-detail="{"ID":"8","Name":"MacBook Air","Description":"2015 MacBook A…"20","Price":"899","Photo":"Images/Products/macbookAir.png"}"></section>
Whereas the code that i have written in javascript:
function selectedProduct(event){
target = event.target;
element = document.getElementById("test");
element.innerHTML = target.innerHTML;
}
will target the specific element that i click on.
What i would like to achieve is when i click on anywhere in the <section> element, that it will take the innerHTML of the whole element rather than the specific one that i have clicked.
I would presume it is something to do with selecting the parent element of the one that is clicked but i am not sure and can't find anything online.
If possible i would like to stay away from JQuery
I think what you need is to use the event.currentTarget. This will contain the element that actually has the event listener. So if the whole <section> has the eventlistener event.target will be the clicked element, the <section> will be in event.currentTarget.
Otherwise parentNode might be what you're looking for.
To use the parent of an element use parentElement:
function selectedProduct(event){
var target = event.target;
var parent = target.parentElement;//parent of "target"
}
handleEvent(e) {
const parent = e.currentTarget.parentNode;
}