JavaScript React Basics Understanding State Bind Event Handlers to Components

Katriel Paige
Katriel Paige
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Posted by Katriel Paige
Katriel Paige
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These exercises use onClick. But what if you wanted to make sure the counters are accessible using a keyboard?

I hesitate to always use onClick for functionality because many times, I don't use a mouse. So, is there some other way to code this that allows for keyboard access to the score counters etc?

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Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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The "onchange" event Lukas mentioned will work for typing into input elements. But if you want to detect keyboard events on other elements or the document itself, you can use the "onkeydown" event.

See the MDN page on keydown for more details.

Lukas Dahlberg
Lukas Dahlberg
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Lukas Dahlberg
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onChange, onFocus (or onFocusIn), and onBlur based on what you're trying to accomplish and when

Katriel Paige
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Katriel Paige
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Thanks! I also realized that I see a lot of onmouseclick - which thankfully is not used as often anymore, but a lot of older code I've seen still assumes use of a mouse.