JavaScript event object?

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I was told that an 'event object' gets passed as a parameter to the function in the program below. What would an example of an 'event object' be? Is it, for example, the <p> element if you clicked on a <p> or <html> if you clicked on <html>, or is the event object the actual 'click'?

document.addEventListener('click', function(e){
console.log(e.target.nodeName);
},false);

Matthew Flaschen · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-23 05:13:02Z

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It's roughly the actual click. See the thorough MDC documentation for event and MouseEvent. You can get the target element from event.target.

answered Mar 23, 2011 at 5:13

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Amadan Over a year ago

Also, you can use console.log(e) to take a peek at what you got.

user3723128 · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-09 16:32:10Z

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in html code you can use by example:

<input type="text" onchange="show(this)" />

<script>
  show(e) {alert(e.value);}
</script>

best regards!

answered Jun 9, 2014 at 16:32

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