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Eduardo Andre De Backer Diaz
11,472 Pointswhy event.target instead of e.target?
why event.target works?
Guil used event.target instead of e.target and still works, but why that happen if event.target isn't defined in the arrow function.
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsIt's a default functionality of most browsers.
It's common for the browser to create a global variable named "event" and give it the current event object when the name is not already being used for something else. But this is not guaranteed, and using it is not recommended. I suspect it was an error in the video that was not caught because it worked anyway.
The "best practice" approach is to make use of the passed-in argument ("e" in this case) when referencing the event object.