Title: Need help with onclick with shortcode
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Need help with onclick with shortcode

 *  [Wolfenstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfenstein/)
 * (@wolfenstein)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-onclick-with-shortcode/)
 * Well right now I have brain lock and this should be simple.
    Basically I want
   to add a onclick event to the content in this function in which it applies a 
   css class.
 * function my_onclick_handler($atts, $content = null)
    { return “<div onclick= 
   class=’my css’ >”.do_shortcode($content).”</div>”; }
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-onclick-with-shortcode/#post-4904570)
 * Set the onclick attribute to call a javascript function, also output a `<script
   >` block that declares that function, so something like this (untested):
    `return"
   <div id='target' onclick='setCSS();' class='my css' >".do_shortcode($content)."
   </div><script>function setCSS(){document.getElementById('target').className='
   newClass';}</script>"`

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-onclick-with-shortcode/#post-4904570)
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