Skip to Main Content
JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition
book

JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition

by Kirupa Chinnathambi
December 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
10h 31m
English
Que
Content preview from JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition

32. Event Bubbling and Capturing

In This Chapter

  • Learn how events travel through the DOM

  • Understand the differences between event capturing and event bubbling

  • Interrupt events

In the previous chapter, you learned how to use the addEventListener function to listen for events that you want to react to. That chapter covered the basics, but it glossed over an important detail about how events actually get fired. An event isn’t an isolated disturbance. Like a butterfly flapping its wings, an earthquake, a meteor strike, or a Godzilla visit, many events ripple and affect a bunch of elements that lie in their path.

In this article, I will put on my investigative glasses, a top hat, and a serious British accent to explain what exactly happens ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide

JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide

Kirupa Chinnathambi

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780136204213