html - Javascript click event listener on multiple elements and get target ID

Question

I have a javascript file that sets an EventListener of 'click' on every element with the <article> tag. I want to get the id of the article clicked when the event fires. For some reason, my code produces nothing!

My javascript:

articles = document.getElementsByTagName('article');
articles.addEventListener('click',redirect(e),false);
function redirect(e){
alert(e.target.id);
}

Why isn't this working? BTW my article setup is in a function called when the window is loaded, and i know that works for sure because that function has other stuff that work.

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EDIT

So i fixed my code so it will loop and add the listener to every article element, and now i get an alert box with nothing in it. When trying to output the e.target without the ID, i get the following message for every element:

[object HTMLHeadingElement]

Any suggestions?

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ANOTHER EDIT

My current javascript code:

function doFirst(){
articles = document.getElementsByTagName('article');
for (var i = 0; i < articles.length; i++) {
    articles[i].addEventListener('click',redirect(articles[i]),false);
}
}

function redirect(e){
alert(e.id);
}
window.addEventListener('load',doFirst,false);

This is showing my alert boxes when the page finished loading, without considering that i haven't clicked a damn thing :O

Answer 1

You are not passing an article object to redirect as a parameter.

Try this (EDIT):

articles = document.getElementsByTagName('article');
for (var i = 0; i < articles.length; i++) {
    articles[i].addEventListener('click',redirect,false);
}
function redirect(ev){
    alert(ev.target.id);
}

Hope, it will solve the bug.