dom-event-delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

Get the element that triggered a specific event:

Question 2

What DOM element property tells you what type of element it is?

Answer 2

Element.tagName

Question 3

What does the element.closest() method take as its argument and what does it return?

Answer 3

the Element and its parents (heading toward the document root) until it finds a node that matches the provided selector string. Will return itself or the matching ancestor.

Question 4

How can you remove an element from the DOM?

Answer 4

removeChild()

Question 5

If you wanted to insert new clickable DOM elements into the page using JavaScript, how could you avoid adding an event listener to every new element individually?

Answer 5

addeventlistener to the parent