event

As we’ve previously seen in our Introduction to Events, adding event listeners is fairly easy. The question then becomes, when would you need to use them? And to what can we attach them? Well, we can attach them to any visible element. So, for example, tags are not going to be useful, however divs, spans,…

An event is when something happens in an application. Event programing makes use of those events by setting up listeners to know when something happens. A listener is triggered when it “hears” the event broadcast, and it executes a function. This is how a program can respond to those events, making the page interactive. There…