dom event delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

target element on the page depending on what’s being listened for

Question 2

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

Answer 2

event bubbling

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

a selector string

Return itself for the matching string

Question 5

How can you remove an element from the DOM?

Answer 5

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

put it on the parent element