w3school: what is "this"?

JavaScript
1

Please, I appologise, but what exactly is menaing “this” in front of inner…in this code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1 onclick="this.innerHTML='Ooops!'">Click on this text!</h1>

</body>
</html>

Many thanks!

2

If you’re really interested in learning javascript, then you really ought to stop using w3schools for your education.
For example, that code uses inline javascript. Not best practice for quite a while now.

Anyway, “this” pretty much means what common sense suggests it means. You can read about it in this much better (compared to w3schools) site https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/this

3

It basically means “change the text of this element to ‘Ooops!’ when it’s clicked on”.

As said, though, it’s lousy code, so don’t use it, but read the reference supplied instead. :slight_smile: