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by ttfkam 1071 days ago
Not a pointer to a function. In JS, functions are first class objects. You might as well say toggle() is an invocation of a pointer to a function.

<div onclick="toggle"> has existed since the dawn of JavaScript in Netscape Navigator 2.0 Beta Gold. Your complaint about the syntax is in fact baked into the foundations of the web.