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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

You're reading from  JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Pages 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Laurence Lars Svekis Laurence Lars Svekis
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

DOM event flow

Let's go over what happens when you click on an element that has multiple elements associated with it.

We are going to create nested div elements. In order to illustrate this, there is a style added to the body. It is actually better to add this style in a head tag, and even better to have a separate CSS file, but this is a bit shorter to read. This is what the nested div elements will look like:

Figure 11.3: Event bubbling in web page

And below is the code associated with it. The script is on the bottom and will be executed when the parts on top are done. It is going to add event listeners to every div, and what it will do is log the innerText. For the outermost element of the nested div elements, this would be 12345, with a new number on every line.

So the question here is, how will it trigger the events? Say we click on the 5, what will be executed? The event of all of the nested div elements, or only the one from 5? And if it is going to...

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