javascript-forms

Question 1

What event is fired when a user places their cursor in a form control?

Answer 1

focus

Question 2

What event is fired when a user’s cursor leaves a form control?

Answer 2

blur

Question 3

What event is fired as a user changes the value of a form control?

Answer 3

input

Question 4

What event is fired when a user clicks the “submit” button within a ?

Answer 4

submit

Question 5

What does the event.preventDefault() method do?

Answer 5

prevents the default action of an event

Question 6

What does submitting a form without event.preventDefault() do?

Answer 6

the page will refresh
-bad bc we could lose data or any progress the user was making in other regions of the page

Question 7

What property of a form element object contains all of the form’s controls.

Answer 7

.elements

Answer 8

value property

Question 9

What is one risk of writing a lot of code without checking to see if it works so far?

Answer 9

you get to the end and realize that you have a bug

just take it one step at a time

Question 10

What is an advantage of having your console open when writing a JavaScript program?

Answer 10

you’re able to check progress as you work