We’ve already seen one event that we’ve used with jQuery – $(document).ready()
, however, there are a lot more events that we can work with.
What is an Event?
An event is something that happens within an application. When we talk about Event Driven Programming, we often are talking about Desktop GUI applications, but we don’t have to. Web pages can fall into this category as well.
Depending upon your application needs, and your browser within reason, there are various events you might use in JavaScript. jQuery handles several common events that you will most often need. They are broken into different categories, as you see here:
Mouse Events | Keyboard Events | Form Events | Document/Window Events |
---|---|---|---|
click | keypress | submit | load |
dblclick | keydown | change | resize |
mouseenter | keyup | focus | scroll |
mouseleave | blur | unload | |
ready |
How to Program for the Event – Event Listeners
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