dom events - How to check whether a Button is clicked by using JavaScript

Question

Is there a simple way to do something along these lines:

JavaScript:

if(document.getElementById('button').clicked == true)
{
   alert("button was clicked");
}

HTML:

<input id="button" type="submit" name="button" value="enter"/>

Answer 1

You can add a click event handler for this:

document.getElementById('button').onclick = function() {
   alert("button was clicked");
}?;?

This will alert when it's clicked, if you want to track it for later, just set a variable to true in that function instead of alerting, or variable++ if you want to count the number of clicks, whatever your ultimate use is. You can see an example here.