Without using jQuery or any other library, the objective is to inform the user which URL will visit with an alert event. In the markup, there are multiple <a> tags with different href values for each, when the user clicks the <a> tag, an alert event displays mentioning where the user is going before actually leaving the website.
Workflow:
<a> tagalert event displays with the href value of the clicked <a> tagalert event, the browser starts loading the href websiteCode sample:
document.querySelector('a').onclick = function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var href = document.querySelector('a').href;
alert('You are going to: ' + href);
window.location = href;
}<div id="container">
<a class="link" href="https://www.microsoft.com/">Link A</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.google.com/">Link B</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.apple.com/">Link C</a>
</div>Objective:
<a> tags to achieve the workflow output for each one of them (and for any further <a> tags with the same class that might be included in the document). Please note that only Link A works as desired so far.Your coding to solve this is appreciated!
Use querySelectorAll() to get all the anchor tags, then loop through them and addEventListener() instead of onclick, because onclick can only be assigned to one element at a time. Also, you can grab the href with e.target.href. e.target is the element that was acted upon to start the event.
document.querySelectorAll('a').forEach(function(el) {
el.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
if (e.target.matches('.link')) {
e.preventDefault();
var href = e.target.href;
alert('You are going to: ' + href);
//window.location = href;
}
})
})<div id="container">
<a class="link" href="https://www.microsoft.com/">Link A</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.google.com/">Link B</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.apple.com/">Link C</a>
</div>querySelector will only match the first element that matches the selector. You can either use querySelectorAll to match all of those elements, add listeners to all of them...
OR
Attach one listener to the container (event delegation allows it to capture events from its children as they "bubble up" the DOM). When a child element is clicked the handler function checks that its an anchor with a .link class, and then executes the rest of the code.
const container = document.querySelector('#container');
container.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
function handleClick(e) {
if (e.target.matches('.link')) {
e.preventDefault();
const { href } = e.target;
alert(`You are going to: ${href}`);
window.location = href;
}
}<div id="container">
<a class="link" href="https://www.microsoft.com/">Link A</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.google.com/">Link B</a>
<a class="link" href="https://www.apple.com/">Link C</a>
</div>