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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

By : Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival
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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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By: Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival

Overview of this book

This book demonstrates the capabilities of JavaScript for web application development by combining theoretical learning with code exercises and fun projects that you can challenge yourself with. The guiding principle of the book is to show how straightforward JavaScript techniques can be used to make web apps ranging from dynamic websites to simple browser-based games. JavaScript from Beginner to Professional focuses on key programming concepts and Document Object Model manipulations that are used to solve common problems in professional web applications. These include data validation, manipulating the appearance of web pages, working with asynchronous and concurrent code. The book uses project-based learning to provide context for the theoretical components in a series of code examples that can be used as modules of an application, such as input validators, games, and simple animations. This will be supplemented with a brief crash course on HTML and CSS to illustrate how JavaScript components fit into a complete web application. As you learn the concepts, you can try them in your own editor or browser console to get a solid understanding of how they work and what they do. By the end of this JavaScript book, you will feel confident writing core JavaScript code and be equipped to progress to more advanced libraries, frameworks, and environments such as React, Angular, and Node.js.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

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...