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JavaScript DOM Scripting By Example Adding and Removing Names RSVP Checkbox

Posted by ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

why use UL to add events to checkbox

I am trying to understand why Guil did the following.

ul.addEventListener('change', (e) => {
    const checkbox = event.target;
    const checked = checkbox.checked;
    const listItem = checkbox.parentNode.parentNode;

    if(checked){
        listItem.className = 'responded';
    }else{
        listItem.className = ';'
    }
}

  1. basically, at 3:00 on movie he says that the click bubbles up. so why we take refernece for ul and not checkbox, because UL will bubble upwards towards body not downloads to LI, yet in the above function the LI get targeted.

  2. why const checkbox = event.target; is used, why didn't we get reference for it like querySelector?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

It's the input that generates the event, the li is selected by traversal (the parent of the parent). The event bubbles up from the input to the ul. Placing the handler on the ul allows just one handler to take care of all the checkboxes. This is called a delegated handler.

Using event.target allows the handler to identify the particular checkbox that caused the event. You wouldn't know which one to select if you tried to use a selector method like "querySelector".