Hi Marcus,
I think you'll find some useful information here:
http://docs.jquery.com/Events/bind#typedatafn
You were on the right track. You can use the "target" property of the
event object.
$(document).click(function(event) {
$(event.target).empty();
// in case you click on an element with a default...
return false;
});
--Karl
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On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:29 AM, marcus wrote:
hi,
I was playing around a it and was trying to simply catch every click-
event with something like this
$(document).click(function(event) { });
but what i just don't understand is how i can now access the element
that was orginally receiving the click.
$(this).empty() empties the whole document, which makes sense and I
found out that I can e.g. get the text I clicked on with
event.explicitOriginalTarget.nodeValue. But that's unfortunately
all...
Can someone tell what would be the working "version" of
$(event.explicitOriginalTarget).empty(); (It's just to make clear what
I'm trying...)
