I’m building a virtual keyboard with vanillla javascript but don’t know where to add the onclick event listener to the buttons or how to grab them. I have a printKeys function that loops thru the array and prints them onload, and I have an unfinished typeKeys function where I’m trying to grab the innerhtml and print it to the input field.
HTML
</head>
<body onload="printKeys()">
<div class="text">
<input type="text" class="your-text" id="input" placeholder="Your text here.."></input>
<button class="copy-btn">Copy</button>
</div>
<div class="keyboard" id="keyboard"></div>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Javascript
const alphaKeys = ["a","b","c"];
const numKeys = "1234567890";
const keyboard = document.getElementById("keyboard");
// render keyboard
function printKeys() {
for (let i = 0; i < alphaKeys.length; i++) {
let keys = document.createElement("button");
keys.innerHTML = alphaKeys[i];
//add onclick function to button
keyboard.appendChild(keys);
}
}
//onClick event, add text in text field
const input = document.getElementById('input')
function typeKeys() {
console.log("clicked")
//grab input and replace with button innerhtml
}
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Answer
Instead of adding the event handler to each button, you can apply it to the parent (keyboard) then just use the event’s target to get the specific button. I also added the character to a data-attribute instead of the innerHTML.
const alphaKeys = ["a","b","c"];
const numKeys = "1234567890";
const keyboard = document.querySelector(".keyboard");
// render keyboard
function printKeys() {
for (let i = 0; i < alphaKeys.length; i++) {
let keys = document.createElement("button");
keys.innerHTML = alphaKeys[i];
keys.setAttribute("data-character",alphaKeys[i]);
keyboard.appendChild(keys);
}
}
//onClick event, add text in text field
const input = document.getElementById('input')
function typeKeys(character) {
input.value += character;
}
keyboard.addEventListener("click",function(e){
let target = e.target;
if(target.getAttribute("data-character")){
typeKeys(target.getAttribute("data-character"))
}
});
printKeys();<div class="text">
<input type="text" class="your-text" id="input" placeholder="Your text here..">
<button class="copy-btn">Copy</button>
</div>
<div class="keyboard" id="keyboard"></div>