Hi,

I am using a function that obtains a target element id at onclick. Example, if I click on the text element that has the id of 'help'.

var click = (e && e.target) || (event && event.srcElement);

The var click would contain the ref to the id of "help".

I want to compare the var click to the string 'help' using the if statement below.

if (click == 'about') {do something}

The comparison does not work because the var click is not a string. When I use the alert(click) to debug, it shows click as "object HTMLElement".

How would you compare whether the id 'help' is obtained from var click?

I could write out something like

if (click == document.getElementById('help')) {do something}

but that would make a long statement.

also

if the var click is document.getElementById('help'), how would you make a new var "show" as document.getElementById('showhelp')

basically, I want to use the same function to generate dynamic responses to each element that was clicked on, and not having to create a separate function for each element.