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Justin Townsend
4,720 PointsI am helplessly clueless
When it's say click handler what is it refering too? is it the click inside the .on() method?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Student List</h2>
<ul class="student-list">
<li>James McAvoy</li>
<li>Alena Holligan</li>
<li>Wade Christensen</li>
<li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
</ul>
<script
src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
$('.student-list').on('click', function(event){})
2 Answers
Eduardo Valencia
12,444 PointsBy using the method .on('click', function(){}) you are creating an event handler. Being that this event handler is waiting for a click, it can be called a click handler. It is not referring to the "click" inside of the method itself, but the handler created by the method. When the click handler does detect a click, then it runs the function you gave it.
So when the question asks you to do something inside of a click handler, you have to write something inside of that function you supplied it, because that is what will happen when a click is detected.
$('#fakeElement').on('click', function(){
// Do stuff
}
Hermanos Solis Utrilla
18,184 PointsThe click handler is the just the "function" inside the on method. Is how you are gonna process what happens when you make a click interaction