How to count number of times the user clicks on a button using javascript?

Sometimes we may need to count the number of times the user clicks on a button or any other control/element in a webpage.

But it seems there no straight forward way such as static variable to do this.

Below sample javascript code can be used to achieve this.

function addCategory()
{
if ( typeof addCategory.no == 'undefined' )
addCategory.no =1;
else
addCategory.no =addCategory.no +1;

}
<input type=button onclick=”addCategory()”>

Explanation:
addCategory.no----->contains total number of times the addCategory() get invoked.
no----> is variable name. Here it acts as member variable for addCategroy() function.
addCategory---->is function name. Javascript treats every function as object. That’s why we are accessing variable as addCategory.no


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