Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies Or Are They Controlling You?

© Francesco Strazzullo 2019

F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4967-3_3

3. Managing DOM Events

Francesco Strazzullo¹ 

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

In the last chapter, we talked about rendering, or more generally, how to draw DOM elements that match with our data. But a web application is not a painting; its contents change over time. The cause of these changes is events.

Events, regardless that they are created by the user or by the system, are a very important aspect of the DOM API. The purpose of this chapter is to understand how to manage these events in a frameworkless application.

The first part of the chapter is an introduction to the DOM Events API. You will learn what an event handler is and how ...