How to trace Javascript events (Stack Trace )?

Question

In any programming language, I can trace any function and know which function is called by other. But in Javascript , I don't know how, since the code is not written by me and Firebug does not give this feature - as far as I know.

An example :

I want to display the function names of each function that is called when clicking on XYZ Element, and display them in order.

Answer 1

Found this: A javascript stacktrace in any browser, James says they have a github account now

function printStackTrace() {
  var callstack = [];
  var isCallstackPopulated = false;
  try {
    i.dont.exist+=0; //doesn't exist- that's the point
  } catch(e) {
    if (e.stack) { //Firefox
      var lines = e.stack.split('\n');
      for (var i=0, len=lines.length; i<len; i++) {
        if (lines[i].match(/^\s*[A-Za-z0-9\-_\$]+\(/)) {
          callstack.push(lines[i]);
        }
      }
      //Remove call to printStackTrace()
      callstack.shift();
      isCallstackPopulated = true;
    }
    else if (window.opera && e.message) { //Opera
      var lines = e.message.split('\n');
      for (var i=0, len=lines.length; i<len; i++) {
        if (lines[i].match(/^\s*[A-Za-z0-9\-_\$]+\(/)) {
          var entry = lines[i];
          //Append next line also since it has the file info
          if (lines[i+1]) {
            entry += " at " + lines[i+1];
            i++;
          }
          callstack.push(entry);
        }
      }
      //Remove call to printStackTrace()
      callstack.shift();
      isCallstackPopulated = true;
    }
  }
  if (!isCallstackPopulated) { //IE and Safari
    var currentFunction = arguments.callee.caller;
    while (currentFunction) {
      var fn = currentFunction.toString();
      var fname = fn.substring(fn.indexOf("function") + 8, fn.indexOf('')) || 'anonymous';
      callstack.push(fname);
      currentFunction = currentFunction.caller;
    }
  }
  output(callstack);
}

function output(arr) {
  // Output however you want
  alert(arr.join('\n\n'));
}

Answer 2

You can see the stack trace of any error with the stack() function call (on Firefox). Creating a simple function to print a stack trace could look like this:

function getStackTrace() {
  try {
    unusedVariable++; // This creates an error we can trace
  }
  catch (e) {
    return e.stack;
  }
}

Other browsers have different ways of printing the stack trace, but this should get you what you need for Firefox.

Hope this helps.