DOM Event Delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

the target that appears when the eventlistner occurs

Question 2

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

Answer 2

because they happen inside each other and that’s what the event listener looks for actions inside itself

Question 3

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

Answer 3

tagName

Question 4

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

Answer 4

selector and nearest ancestor

Question 5

How can you remove an element from the DOM?

Answer 5

remove()

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

by creating a function that waits for a single event listener to create its actions.