JavaScript Event

Apr 3, 2023

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event reference

An event may occur when

• The user selects, clicks, or hovers the cursor over a certain element.
• The user chooses a key on the keyboard.
• The user resizes or closes the browser window.
• A web page finishes loading.
• A form is submitted.
• A video is played, paused, or finishes.
• An error occurs.

To react to an event, you attach an event handler to it. This is a block of code (usually a JavaScript function that you as a programmer create) that runs when the event fires. When such a block of code is defined to run in response to an event, we say we are registering an event handler.

Web events are not part of the core JavaScript language — they are defined as part of the APIs built into the browser.

Execute a JavaScript immediately after a page has been loaded: