Lesson 9: Event and Event Handling

Question 1

What does Event Handling do?

Answer 1

Make it possible for the user to interact with the webpage.

Question 2

What are Events?

Answer 2

The browser’s way of saying, “Hey, this happened.”

Question 3

What are some keyboard events?

Answer 3

keydown, keyup, keypress.

Question 4

Three ways to bind event handler to an element:

Answer 4

• HTML event handler attributes.
• Traditional DOM event handlers.
• DOM Level 2 event listeners.

Question 5

What is a callback function?

Answer 5

A function when it’s passed into another function as an argument.