DOM Event Delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

It is basically the element in which an event occurs and is dispatching from

Question 2

Why is it possible to listen for events on one element that actually happens its descendent elements?

Answer 2

Event bubbling

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The tagName property

Question 4

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

Answer 4

It takes in a selector and returns what element is the closest ancestor is to the selector

Question 5

How can you remove an element from the DOM?

Answer 5

The element.remove() method

Question 6

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 6

Through event delegation, basically adding the event listener to the parent element