Chapter 19. Responding to Events
What You’ll Learn in This Chapter:
▸ How event handlers work
▸ How event handlers relate to objects
▸ How to create an event handler
▸ How to detect mouse and keyboard actions
▸ How to use onclick to change the appearance of <div>
In your experience with JavaScript so far, most of the scripts you’ve written have executed in a calm, orderly fashion, quietly and methodically moving from the first statement to the last. You’ve seen a few event handlers in use in sample scripts used to focus your attention on other aspects of programming, and it is likely that you used your common sense to follow along with the actions—onclick really does mean “when a click happens.” That alone speaks to the relative ease and simplicity ...
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