jQuery click both event.target and additional selector

Question

Trying to have jQuery access both the event.target and another element on click but receive the error:

Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [object HTMLButtonElement],#element2

Selector code:

$(event.target+",#element2").closest("div").removeClass("alert-info").addClass("alert-success");

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong appreciated.

Answer 1

event.target isn't a selector string, it's an element. You can wrap any element in a jQuery object:

$(event.target)

So you could perform your logic on both the element and the selector:

$(event.target).closest("div").removeClass("alert-info").addClass("alert-success");
$("#element2").closest("div").removeClass("alert-info").addClass("alert-success");

Or, two reduce a little repetition, you can use .add() to combine jQuery objects into a set of objects:

$(event.target).add("#element2").closest("div").removeClass("alert-info").addClass("alert-success");