I need to generate events each time a user clicks on any of the slides of the banner of the home page of this site:
https://www.lacuracao.pe/
I've asked a developer to put ids to each slide, in order to make it easier to track each banner separatly as an event when its clicked.
My click trigger is set to fire on slide with id="banner-home-01", but the tag won't fire. This is the last slide, not the first one as one would expect.
Could it be that it's inside another divs? (even using the id attribute to target it's clicks?)
My clicks listeners and linkclick listeners are working:
My trigger:
My tag:
HTML:
<div width="100%" class="banner-slider-18 body-banner-01" id="banner-home-01">
<a href="/curacao/celulares-lc"><div width="100%" class="fondo">
<!--<div>
<div class="linkeo">
<a href="/curacao/tv-samsung-ultra-hd-smart-55-un-55nu7090g-un-55nu7090g-p">
<button>compra</button>
</a>
</div>
<div class="linkeo">
<a href="/curacao/tv-samsung-ultra-hd-smart-55-un-55nu7090g-un-55nu7090g-p">
<button>compra</button>
</a>
</div>
</div>-->
</div></a>
</div>
UPDATE 1:
The tag appears in the Debugger Summary as not fired, and when clicked it shows:
This is an image of the details, but It doesn't show why it didn't fire:
if you look in the debugger at the event gtm.linkClick and look at the variables you can see that the variable is an emtpy string, thats why your tag isn't firing. Your developer needs to add an id to the link itself, so the Click ID will be filled (see screenshot with the id test). After that the Click ID field will be filled with the id.
Another tip for you if you want to see why a tag isn't firing you have to select the event you want to inspect on the left side, for example a click and then click on the tag that wasn't firing. If you scroll down to Firing Triggers, you see what condition hasn't been fulfilled.
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I'm trying to set up a click event for a certain button in GA4 Analytics in GTM, but the event does not fire in the preview.
The button has a specific ID. I can see the ID in the DOM, I can see that the gtm.element contains the ID in the API call, but the debug information shows that the Click ID does not match.
I've tested with my front-end developers that the event click events are propagated through the DOM. On a simple image where I've set up the click event in the same way the click event is properly registered.
Any insight in how to solve this is greatly appreciated.
From you screenshots. Looks like GTM detect the click is fired on the <span> inside the button you want.
For this kind of case. I would suggest to use click element as your trigger.
Here is the selector
button#ga_welcome_start_print_job, button#ga_welcome_start_print_job *
This means we want to track the click for the button and all the element inside it.
TLDR; wrap text in an attribute that has id property. Make a custom variable in GTM, of type 'Auto Event Variable' -> Variable Type = Element ID. Then assign to tag.
I had a similar situation. I was using React MUI's Button and I noticed that the id attribute wasn't actually being assigned to GA4's elementId. My guess is the id attribute wasn't 'bubbling' up or it was being processed somehow in MUI which conflicts with GA4. Anyways, I literally just started using analytics, so here's what I did to get it working.
I had a MUI button with the following setup
<Button
id='location-filter-tag'
className='reco-filter-button'
variant={searchState === 'cumulative' ? "contained" : "text"}
size="small"
onClick={() => {
setQueryType('cumulative');
}}
>
<h6 className="some-class">
Location
</h6>
</Button>
Checking the the push event gtm.click below, you can see the id='location-filter-tag' is concatenated into one big string. under gtm.element.
At the time, the gtm.elementId was an empty string (image is of working instance)
I tried to hook into gtm.element and trigger the tag using contains = location-filter-tag but that didn't work. So I moved the id property to the child attribute to get it to register with GA4's gtm.elementId
<h6
id='location-filter-tag'
className="text-overflow reco-filter-text"
>
Then in google tag manager, I setup a variable like so:
Then I assigned it as a trigger. This is my location trigger
hope that helps.
I'm trying to track all outbound links that contains the target=_blank, and after many hours of testing I realized that each click variables (in the debug mode) seems to be empty. I guess this is because there's a span element within the anchor. On some clicks the variables contain the full URL and attributes etc, but most of the time they don't - and there doesn't seem to be any constistency in this behavior.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here? Thanks!
DOM for the link:
<div class="elementor-button-wrapper">
<a href="#" class="elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm" target="_blank" role="button">
<span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper">
<span class="elementor-button-text">Se priset</span>
</span>
</a>
</div>
The problem is, that you are using click trigger for all elements, which captures the exact element clicked, which is the span.elementor-button-text
You should use just "Click - Just links" type of trigger, and specify the links you would like to track. This will ensure, that the clicked element is the a tag, regardless of its child elements, that can get clicked.
You can set your trigger to capture only links with target=_blank attribute as {{Click Element}} matches CSS selector a[target="_blank"]
E.g.
EDIT:
Based on your relevant code part, the Link Click event should look like this:
In Google Tag Manager, I set it up to track some data from clicks on elements that contain a certain class and record an event in Google Analytics. It seems to work just fine for text links, but I run into problems if there is another tag inside the link for an image, icon, etc. For example, the following would work fine:
Click here
But this won't work:
<a href="link.html" class="track_this" data-tracking-info="my info">
<span class="icon click-here"></span>
</a>
And something like this will work if you click on the text, but not if you click on the icon:
<a href="link.html" class="track_this" data-tracking-info="my info">
<span class="icon click-here"></span> Click Here
</a>
I know that I could add the "track_this" class into the span for the icon, but it gets REALLY messy in more complicated scenarios. Like imagine having a thumbnail image with an icon and some text below it all wrapped into one a tag. I'd have to put that class and the tracking info on the image tag, the span for the icon, the div for the text, etc.
Is there a better way to do this? Thanks!
I could speak more definitively on this if I could see how your GTM was setup, but my guess is that you are using an "All Elements" trigger to capture these link clicks, and filtering on "Click Classes" or "Click Element". The issue with this is that, when the link tag (<a></a>) contains another element, such as a <span>, even though that triggers your link to open, the element that GTM records as receiving the click is the span, not the link.
If you want to fix this, there are two options, either of which should work.
The first is to switch to using a "Click - Just Links" trigger type, and filter on the class "track_this". For this trigger, GTM lets click events "bubble" up until they hit a link element, and then it tests your trigger against that link, instead of the element that was clicked on. Simply using this trigger type should work for all three of your samples.
The other option is to use a more advanced filter with the "Click - All Elements" trigger. If you modify the trigger so it fires on "Some Clicks", and then make the condition that "Click Element matches CSS selector:"
.track_this, .track_this *
then it will register a click on any element that has the track_this class, as well as a click on any element inside those elements.
This problem can also be solved using a little bit of javascript and a 'User-Defined Variable' in Tag Manger. This solution is for handling more complex UI components.
Explanation
Google Analytics + Tag Manger record the very specific Element or Node that is clicked by the user. That element is stored in GA as a "Click Element" variable. So in more complex UI situations it is possible the user could click on multiple elements for a single action to occur. For example. Here is a button with an icon and text.
<div
class="button"
id="PARENT_ID"
onClick = () => ...
>
<span id="CHILD_ONE">
icon
</span>
<span id="CHILD_TWO">
text
</span>
</div>
In this scenario it is possible for the user to click on any of the three id's above. All three will activate the onClick action. However, Google Analytics doesn't care about the onClick. It only cares about what specific element was clicked. IE: PARENT_ID, CHILD_ONE or CHILD_TWO.
The "User-Defined Variable" Solution.
In Tag Manager go to the 'Variables'. (Left column menu.)
Add a new 'User-Defined Variable'.
Select the variable type as 'Custom JavaScript'.
Add:
function() {
if ({{Click Element}}.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.id;
}
if ({{Click Element}}.parentNode.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.id;
}
if ({{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.id != "") {
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.id;
}
return {{Click Element}}.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.id;
}
This script will search the DOM up three levels up from any child Element (Node) and look for a matching Tag id.
NOTE: Click Element is the variable name used by Google Analytics. It's the gtm.element the user clicked.
Setup Tag Manager Configuration to use your new 'Custom Variable'.
Now use the parent id for setting up your Triggers. In my example PARENT_ID will be the returned id even if a user clicks on CHILD_ONE or CHILD_TWO. So select 'contains' PARENT_ID.
------ Further Considerations -----
This solution only works within three parent levels. Also while unlikely it is possible to capture an element out of scope of what is intended.
In more complex UI components it might be preferable to add the Tag id's to every Element. If you are using a front end framework like React I would suggest making the Tag Id a dynamic prop and add it to all child components.
NOTE: Google Analytics changes often. This is a GA4 + Tag Manager solution.
style use pointer-events:none can't tracking by inside.
<a>
<svg id="gtm-track">
<rect style="pointer-events:none"> .... <rect/>
<path style="pointer-events:none"> .... <path/>
<svg/>
<a/>
When presented with the following structure...
<a id="link-flickr-vs-team" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/...">
<img src="images/gallery1.jpg" alt="thumb">
<i class="fa fa-camera-retro" aria-hidden="true"></i>
Descriptive text here
</a>
How do I set up my trigger to account for the click on the image or text. Right now I can't seem to get it to register on the image. My current trigger settings are...
Click - All Elements
Some Clicks
Click Element, matches CSS selector, a*
... and my Tag Configuration is...
UA Google Analytics
Track Type: Event
Category: Flickr
Action: Click
Label: {{Click Element}}
Etc...
The event label returns [object HTMLImageElement] but I need it to return the id from the <a> but using Click ID returns (not set) when click the image, only the text.
My page has a list of links, with some associated information.
eg. Something along the lines of
<div class="listOfThings">
<div class="Thing"> <a link here/> <specific thing A info here/> </div>
<div class="Thing"> <a link here/> <specific thing B info here/> </div>
<div class="Thing"> <a link here/> <specific thing C info here/> </div>
</div>
In DTM, I want to be able to track a click on to any of those inner "Thing" divs, extract which thing was clicked, and pass that info to Google Analytics. I can get the click selector working fine, but I want to know how to extract the additional information on the click.
This would be done inside of an Event Based rule. See image: http://imgur.com/BQv0HdC
Event Type: Click
In the element tag or selector: div.things a
This is saying I want to track all click on any anchor tag inside a div with the class name of "things"
Then once you have done that you can reference the "this" scope. You have use %% as a notation within the form fields for the GA code. so %this.text% would pull in the text of the specific link selected: %this.innnerHTML%, %this.href% etc...