How to tell what menu item was clicked in generic click function

[piller187]

I'm loading the menu dynamically in a plugin system. I define 1 function for the fun property of each menu item. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to tell when inside this function what menu item was clicked.

[leondanielking]

The tag itself (and the text) is available in the 2nd argument to your function or the event. From that you can extract the text and determine the menu item:

arguments[1].target value: <li title="This is an example" class=iw-mSelected">Some Menu Item

or: event.target.innerText

If it's a submenu you can determine the parent item and figure out the context, should you have duplicate menu items.

Using JQuery: $(event.target).parent().parent()[0] result: <li title="New..." class="iw-has-submenu iw-mTrigger iw-mSelected>