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jQuery Pocket Reference
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jQuery Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan
December 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Events

One of the difficulties of working with events in client-side JavaScript is that IE (until IE9) implements a different event API than all other browsers. To address this difficulty, jQuery defines a uniform event API that works in all browsers. In its simple form, the jQuery API is easier to use than the standard or IE event APIs. And in its more complex full-featured form, the jQuery API is more powerful than the standard API. The sections below have all the details.

Simple Event Handler Registration

jQuery defines simple event registration methods for each of the commonly used and universally implemented browser events. To register an event handler for “click” events, for example, just call the click() method:

// Clicking on any <p> gives it a gray background
$("p").click(function() {
    $(this).css("background-color", "gray");
});

Calling a jQuery event registration method registers your handler on all of the selected elements. This is typically much easier than one-at-a-time event handler registration with addEventListener() or attachEvent().

These are the simple event handler registration methods jQuery defines:

blur()       focusin()       mousedown()     mouseup()
change()     focusout()      mouseenter()    resize()
click()      keydown()       mouseleave()    scroll()
dblclick()   keypress()      mousemove()     select()
error()      keyup()         mouseout()      submit()
focus()      load()          mouseover()     unload()

Most of these registration methods are for common event types with which you are probably already familiar. A few notes are ...

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