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JavaScript

Posted by toddschneider
toddschneider
4,795 Points

Do Chrome and Firefox still support the (DOM) onclick and addEventListener?

I have been trying for over a hour to get my <button> element to work in JavaScript, using both addEventListener and onclick. I was wondering if the browsers no longer support these DOM commands? Here is my code just in case.

<button id="action">Action</button> <input id="text_field"> <script src="./functions.js"></script>

javascript var button = document.getElementById('action');

button.addEventListener('click', function () { console.log("hello"); });

Thanks to all who answer!

1 Answer

Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points
Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points

Hey Todd!

Firefox and Chrome both fully support addEventListener() and onclick(). If you want to share some more of your code, I'd be glad to take a look and see if I can help. Let me know!

-Andrew

toddschneider
toddschneider
4,795 Points

Thanks for your comment Andrew. I was able to get my code to finally run here's the final productCode The problem was I tried to getElementById() above my slot Function so the browser wasn't able to define them when I call them below. Thanks again I hope I didn't put you on a wild goose chase! =D