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Click event in jQuery

How to attach a click event to a html element in jQuery?

To attach a click event to an element, click() method can be used that fires when the element is clicked.

  <script>
       $("#btnClick").click(function () {
           alert("click event called");
       })
  </script>

Above code snippet first find html element whose id is "btnClick" and attach "click" event. When this element is clicked, a function fires that shows "click event called" message in the JavaScript alert box.