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JavaScript

Posted by Farnoosh M
Farnoosh M
10,921 Points

addEventListener

Hi!

In this video we added the event to the button element through:

element.onclick = function_name;

What's the difference between this approach and adding the event with:

element.addEventListener('click', 'function_name', false);

And which one is better? Thanks

1 Answer

Lee Ravenberg
Lee Ravenberg
10,019 Points

Both ways are good. You are just programming against the DOM API in a different way. A few years ago, the implementations of the DOM differed a lot in browsers. I think Internet Explored had a different way of adding an .onclick listener.

For a more in-depth discussion around this I refer you to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6348494/addeventlistener-vs-onclick

Farnoosh M
Farnoosh M
10,921 Points

Thanks Lee :)