Advanced DOM: Three Most Popular Event Types We Use All The Time!

Event is that we make things interactive.

When we are interacting with a web page, we may click on a button, hover over a picture, drag or drop something, or press the Enter Key. All of those are events and happen all the time.

The process of event is that we select an element and then add an event listener to the element we selected.

To add a listener, we use a method called addEventListener.

element.addEventListener(type, functionToCall);

There are two arguments for the addEventListner.

• Type: the type of event we want to listen for such as "click"
• FunctionToCall: the function is the code that we want to run when that event happens

In our daily life, there are three most popular event types we use all the time: click, mouseover, and mouseout.

Click

We always like to click the "start" button to start a game or start shopping. How could we do that event in JavaScript?

I open the DOM page, and I want the page to pop up an alert message when I click the h1. I start to select the h1 : var h1 = document.querySelector("h1").

Then, I add an event listener to the it by giving the event type "click", and an alert function. 

h1.addEventListenter("click", function(){

alert("You Clicked!");})

As you can see, when I click the h1, it pops up the alert message. Then, I add another event listener to h1 which is change the background color to pink as I click the h1.

Actually, what will happen is that when I click the h1, it will pop up the alert message first, then change the background to pink. It means that we can have more than one listener on a given element.

MouseOver

The way that mouseover works is that it's going to fire as soon as we start hovering over something.

If I want the first list message change color to green when I hover over it, I will select the first li and then add event listener to it by setting the type of event to be mouseover, and change the color style in function.

The result will be when my mouse is hovering on the first li, the color changes to green.

MouseOut

In the opposite, mouseout is going to fire as soon as we are not hovering over something. 

If I want the first list message change color from green to red when I move my mouse to somewhere else, I just need to add another event listener to it by setting the type of event to be mouseout, and change the color style in function.