How are the times a user presses the button counted in jQuery?


To count how many times a user presses the button, you need to set counter on button click.

Example

Following is the code −

 Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <title>Document</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<body>
<button id="pressButton">Press Me</button><br>
<h3>The current Value is= </h3>
<h1 id="incrementThisValue">0</h1>
</body>
<script>
var increment = 0;
var current = document.getElementById('incrementThisValue');
document.getElementById('pressButton').onclick = (event) => {
   current.textContent = ++increment;
};
</script>
</html>

To run the above program, save the file name anyName.html (index.html). Right click on the file and select the option “Open with Live Server” in VS Code editor.

Output

The output is as follows −

When you press the button you will get an incremental value which starts from 0,1,2,...N

Output

The output is as follows −

Updated on: 03-Oct-2020

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