Question

With the following html:

<div>
   <a href='#link1' onclick='func()' >Link 1</a>
   <a href='#link2' onclick='func()' >Link 2</a>
   <a href='#link3' onclick='func()' >Link 3</a>
</div>

function func() {
   var href = ??;
   if( href.match(/#link1/) ) {
      ...
   }
}

in Chrome (and IE?) can use this code

var href = window.event.target.href;

but window.event does not exist in Firefox

If the events were attached via addEventListener then could have e as an argument, but see no way to get the event passed to the onclick function when declared in html.

Answer 1

You do get the event as an argument, in the onclick handler itself. So you can do:

 <a href="#link1" onclick="func(event)" >Link 1</a>

and then you can look at the event target in func.