jQuery event.delegateTarget Property


The event.delegateTarget property in jQuery is used to return the element where the currently-called jQuery event handler was attached.

Syntax

The syntax is as follows −

event.delegateTarget

Example

Let us now see an example to implement the jQuery event.delegateTarget property −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
   $(document).ready(function(){
      $("div").on("click", "button", function(event){
         $(event.delegateTarget).css("color", "red");
      });
   });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Demo Heading</h2>
<p>Change color by clicking on below button.</p>
<div style="color:blue">
This is demo text.
<button>Click to change color</button>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

Above, click on the button to change the text color −

Updated on: 11-Nov-2019

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