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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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

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

Event listeners on elements

Events are things that happen on a web page, like clicking on something, moving the mouse over an element, changing an element, and there are many more. We have seen how to add an onclick event handler already. In the same way, you can add an onchange handler, or an onmouseover handler. There is one special condition, though; one element can only have one event handler as an HTML attribute. So, if it has an onclick handler, it cannot have an onmouseover handler as well. At this point, we have only seen how to add event listeners using HTML attributes like this:

<button onclick="addRandomNumber()">Add a number</button>

There is a way to register event handlers using JavaScript as well. We call these event listeners. Using event listeners, we can add multiple events to one element. This way, JavaScript is constantly checking, or listening, for certain events to the elements on the page. Adding event listeners is a two-step process...