dom-event-delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

it gives what element node was targeted upon the event that was fired; gives the target property of the event interface

Question 2

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

Answer 2

because of event bubbling

Question 3

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

Answer 3

tagName property

Question 4

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

Answer 4

it takes a string selector and returns the closest parent/ancestor element with the selector or itself

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

add the event listener to the parent node and delegate the child nodes