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JavaScript

Nicolas Valdivieso
Nicolas Valdivieso
6,654 Points
Posted by Nicolas Valdivieso
Nicolas Valdivieso
6,654 Points

I cant figure out why every single button is logging third :

https://playcode.io/480078?tabs=index.html,preview,console

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,169 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,169 Points

It works for me (I get each button's name).

But you don't need separate handlers for each button. This is a good situation to use event delegation:

document.body.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    if (e.target.tagName == "BUTTON")
        console.log(e.target.innerHTML)
});
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,169 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,169 Points

Now that I've seen the original, the problem was caused by having one "buttonName" shared by all 3 handlers. So before any of them could be triggered, the value of "buttonName" was set to the text from the last one.

A quick fix would be to use "let" instead of "var" when creating the variable.

Nicolas Valdivieso
Nicolas Valdivieso
6,654 Points
Nicolas Valdivieso
Nicolas Valdivieso
6,654 Points

yeah i fixed it earlier while testing and i forgot... i broke it again so you can see the actual problem