How do I add an addeventlistener on click on a specific hyperlink in a page

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Hi, I would like to add an addEventListener on click for a specific hyperlink in a page. Here's what I got so far.

What it does is, every time a user clicks on a page, it sends me that log. I don't want that, I need to receive the log whenever the user clicks on that specific link. In this case, the hyperlink is "link".

Looking forward for any inputs you can share. Thank you very much.

What I have tried:

Part of the code:

let link = document.createElement("a");

document.querySelectorAll('[class^="tabs-content"]').forEach(link => {
link.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
log('Test');
});
});

Posted 23-May-23 15:45pm

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Updated 15-Jun-23 4:30am

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Karthik_Mahalingam 23-May-23 23:22pm

what is the issue?

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Graeme_Grant · Answer 1 · 2023-05-23T18:41:00

This should work:

JavaScript

// Get all anchor elements with a specific class name
var anchors = document.getElementsByClassName("awsui_tabs-content");

// clicked counter
var count = 0;

// Add click event listener to each anchor
Array.from(anchors).forEach(function (anchor) {
    anchor.addEventListener("click", function (event) {
        console.log("Clicked! count: " + ++count);
        // Add your custom logic here
    });
});

UPDATE
This was my test:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="app">
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 1</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 2</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 3</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 4</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 5</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 6</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 7</a>
            <a href="#" class="my_anchor">anchor 8</a>
        </div>
    </body>
    <script>
// Get all anchor elements with a specific class name
var anchors = document.getElementsByClassName("my_anchor");
var count = 0;
// Add click event listener to each anchor
Array.from(anchors).forEach(function (anchor) {
    anchor.addEventListener("click", function (obj) {
        console.log("Clicked! count:" + ++count);
        // Add your custom logic here
    });
});
    </script>
</html>

and the console output when I click on anchors:

Clicked! count:1
Clicked! count:2
Clicked! count:3
Clicked! count:4
Clicked! count:5
Clicked! count:6
Clicked! count:7
Clicked! count:8