[thelist] Tip: Using event delegation for more flexible web apps

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 11:24:28 CDT 2006


<tip type="javascript" author="chris heilmann">
In order to cut down on the amount of event handling in applications
you can simply assign one event handler on a parent element and
retrieve the element that was activated via a getTarget() method. This
is possible because elements report event activity to their parent
nodes (event bubbling). This trick is called event delegation:
http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/eventdelegation/
</tip>

This got stuck somehow, sorry if you get that twice...
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Chris Heilmann
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