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arif khan
2,121 Pointsto work with event object inside a handler we need to pass it then how come we are accessing variables defined outside?
const in = form.getElementById('input'); form.addEventListener('submit', (e)=>{ e.preventDefault(); //we can access coz we pass it to the event handeler function const text = in.value; //didnt pass cont variable in but accessible how?? })
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Steven Parker
231,275 PointsA function always has access to variables that exist in the execution context, in addition to those passed in as arguments.
At a minimum, the execution context includes all variables defined in the global scope (except for those that may be "shadowed" by inner scope variables of the same name).