jQuery Events: Change the background color of a element

Last update on July 23 2025 12:34:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Events : Exercise-8 with Solution

Change the background color of the <div> element of the following code on clicking the button.
Sample Data :

HTML :

<div style="background-color:yellow">
 <p>Click the button to change the background color of this paragraph.</p>
 <button>Click me!</button>
 </div>

Solution :

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
 <div style="background-color:yellow">
   <p>Click the button to change the background color of this paragraph.</p>
 <button>Click me!</button>
</div>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

$("div").on( "click", "button", function( event ) {
  $(event.delegateTarget ).css( "background-color", "green");
});

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Live Demo:

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