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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Responding to User Interaction Event Listening, Bubbling and Delegation

Vic Mercier
Vic Mercier
3,276 Points

quiz

You can set a listener for an event you want to handle on a sibling of the parent of your target element, because of event delegation.true or false(Try to explain this question in other word)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

Event delegation must be handled by an ancestor element.

When you use event delegation, the listener must be set on an element that is the parent or other "ancestor" element of the one that will trigger the event.

A sibling of a parent would not be in the direct ancestry line, so it would not receive an event propagating from the element in question.

Vic Mercier
Vic Mercier
3,276 Points

What does it mean a sibling?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

The word "sibling" means "having the same parent".

If we were talking about people instead of HTML elements, it would mean a brother or sister. And the "sibling of the parent" would be an aunt or uncle.