difference between onclick and click in JavaScript

Question

Is there any kind of difference between the following two lines of code in JavaScript:

<button id='btn1' onclick='do_this();'>Button 1</button>;

<button id='btn1' click='do_that();'>Button 2</button>;

//some script later
function do_this()
{
    alert('this');
}

function do_that()
{
    alert('that');
}

Artem Kalinchuk · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-17 11:59:53Z

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onclick works in javascript, click doesn't. If you want click to work, you might need jQuery.

edited Mar 17, 2014 at 11:59

answered Oct 24, 2011 at 19:31

Artem Kalinchuk

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3 Comments

Eric Over a year ago

Note that it should be onclick, not onClick. Attributes should be lower case.

Felix Kling Over a year ago

@Eric: HTML is case-insensitive.

Eric Over a year ago

I said "should", not "must". It's good practice to code HTML with lower case attributes, as it makes it easy to convert into XHTML in the future.

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