dom-event-delegation

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

The element that was interacted with.

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

It takes a selector and return itself or the closest parent that matches the selector.

Question 5

How can you remove an element from the DOM?

Answer 5

element.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

Add the addEventListener( ) to the parent element.