Questions tagged [events]

An event is a way for a class to provide notifications to listeners when a particular thing happens.

An event is a way to notify listeners when a particular thing occurs. In the object-oriented paradigm, an event is a way for a class to provide notifications to clients of that class when some interesting thing happens to an object. The most familiar use for events is in graphical user interfaces; typically, the classes that represent controls in the interface. These classes have events that are notified when the user does something to the control (for example, click a button).

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Event binding on dynamically created elements?

I have a bit of code where I am looping through all the select boxes on a page and binding a .hover event to them to do a bit of twiddling with their width on mouse on/off. This happens on page ready and works just fine. The problem I have is that…

asked Oct 14 '08 at 23:25

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How can I trigger the same function from multiple events with jQuery?

Is there a way to have keyup, keypress, blur, and change events call the same function in one line or do I have to do them separately? The problem I have is that I need to validate some data with a db lookup and would like to make sure validation is…

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asked Mar 28 '10 at 18:53

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What's the difference between event.stopPropagation and event.preventDefault?

They seem to be doing the same thing... Is one modern and one old? Or are they supported by different browsers? When I handle events myself (without framework) I just always check for both and execute both if present. (I also return false, but I…

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asked May 11 '11 at 11:45

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How to find event listeners on a DOM node in JavaScript or in debugging?

I have a page where some event listeners are attached to input boxes and select boxes. Is there a way to find out which event listeners are observing a particular DOM node and for what event? Events are attached using: Prototype's…

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asked Jan 15 '09 at 14:19

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jQuery Event Keypress: Which key was pressed?

With jQuery, how do I find out which key was pressed when I bind to the keypress event? $('#searchbox input').bind('keypress', function(e) {}); I want to trigger a submit when ENTER is pressed. [Update] Even though I found the (or better: one)…

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asked Nov 19 '08 at 14:59

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How to trigger event in JavaScript?

I have attached an event to a text box using addEventListener. It works fine. My problem arose when I wanted to trigger the event programmatically from another function. How can I do it?

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asked Mar 22 '10 at 08:41

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How do I attach events to dynamic HTML elements with jQuery?

Suppose I have some jQuery code that attaches an event handler to all elements with class .myclass. For example: $(function(){ $(".myclass").click( function() { // do something }); }); And my HTML might be as follows:

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asked Aug 31 '09 at 19:29

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jQuery find events handlers registered with an object

I need to find which event handlers are registered over an object. For example: $("#el").click(function() {...}); $("#el").mouseover(function() {...}); $("#el") has click and mouseover registered. Is there a function to find out that, and possibly…

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asked Mar 25 '10 at 18:47

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