title: How to know which menu item is clicked in bootstrap
body: <p>I want to know which element was clicked in bootstrap menu.</p>
  
  <p>I have a menu which has dropdown, so I want to know which menu item was clicked and I want to store it in browser local storage how to do this?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://jsfiddle.net/h8970p36/" rel="nofollow">JS FIDDLE</a> </p>
  
  <p>I tried this for getting the menu item clicked but it does not work:</p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    alert(e.target.id);
  });</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS --&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous"&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Optional theme --&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css" integrity="sha384-fLW2N01lMqjakBkx3l/M9EahuwpSfeNvV63J5ezn3uZzapT0u7EYsXMjQV+0En5r" crossorigin="anonymous"&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript --&gt;
  &lt;script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;nav class="navbar navbar-default"&gt;
    &lt;div class="container-fluid"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display --&gt;
      &lt;div class="navbar-header"&gt;
        &lt;button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false"&gt;
          &lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Toggle navigation&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;/button&gt;
        &lt;a class="navbar-brand" href="#"&gt;Brand&lt;/a&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling --&gt;
      &lt;div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1"&gt;
        &lt;ul class="nav navbar-nav"&gt;
          &lt;li class="active"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Link &lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;(current)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li class="dropdown"&gt;
            &lt;a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"&gt;Dropdown &lt;span class="caret"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
            &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Action&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Another action&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Something else here&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li role="separator" class="divider"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Separated link&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li role="separator" class="divider"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;One more separated link&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
        &lt;form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search"&gt;
          &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
            &lt;input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search"&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;button type="submit" class="btn btn-default"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt;
        &lt;/form&gt;
        &lt;ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li class="dropdown"&gt;
            &lt;a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"&gt;Dropdown &lt;span class="caret"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
            &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Action&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Another action&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Something else here&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li role="separator" class="divider"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Separated link&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;!-- /.navbar-collapse --&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;!-- /.container-fluid --&gt;
  &lt;/nav&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Also how to store and retrieve thier value from database?</p>