Question

I need to clone the onclick event of an element from one link to another.

<a id='foo' onclick='bar'>

I need some javascript or jquery that will return `bar’.

$('#foo').attr('onclick')
    //returns 'undefined'

Answer 1

Use the native .getAttribute method of the DOM element.

I have compared .attr('onclick') to [0].getAttribute('onclick'):

• The jQuery method returned function onclick(event) {bar;} (jQuery version 1.5.2, included by Stack Overflow)
• The JavaScript method returned "bar"

Test case (copy & paste in console):

$('<a id="foo" onclick="bar">')[0].getAttribute('onclick')