a function gets an element from an onclick via somefunction(this)
can the function somehow figure out what the name of the ID for ‘this’ is?
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If
thispoints to the desired element, thenthis.idreturns the id attribute for that element as in<div id="header">(this would fetch"header").If what you want is the
nameattribute as in<input name="address">, you can get that withthis.name.