Vanilla JavaScript version of jQuery .click

Question

So maybe I'm just not looking in the right places but I can't find a good explanation of how to do the equivalent of jQuery's

$('a').click(function(){     // code here }); 

in plain old JavaScript?

Basically I want to run a function every time an a tag is clicked but I don't have the ability to load jQuery into the page to do it in the way above so I need to know how to do it using plain JavaScript.

Answer 1

Working Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6ZNws/

Html

<a href="something">CLick Here</a> <a href="something">CLick Here</a> <a href="something">CLick Here</a> 

Javascript:

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for(var z = 0; z < anchors.length; z++) {     var elem = anchors[z];        elem.onclick = function() {         alert("hello");         return false;     }; }