JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM Responding to User Interaction The Event Object

Abhijit Das
Abhijit Das
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Posted by Abhijit Das
Abhijit Das
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Why my event.target isn't working?

ok please help me to find the issue, my html is

<input type="text">

my css is 

.bg {
  background-color:#777;
  outline:none;
  border:solid 2px tomato;
}

and my js

const input = document.querySelector('input');
input.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  if (e.target.tagName === 'INPUT') {
    input.className = "bg";
  } else {
    input.className = "";
  }   
});

once i click the input element the "bg" class name is adding, however, why it isn't removing, once i click on outside of input element? Sorry can't put the the code-pen link this time

1 Answer

ywang04
ywang04
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ywang04
ywang04
6,736 Points

When you click on outside of input element, which will trigger a new event on other elements you clicked instead of input element itself. Therefore, the if else block won't be executed.

//won't be executed
if (e.target.tagName === 'INPUT') {
    input.className = "bg";
  } else {
    input.className = "";
  }

To meet your requirement with event object, you can refer to the following codes:

const input = document.querySelector('input');

input.addEventListener('mouseover', (e) => {
  if (e.target.tagName === 'INPUT') {
    input.className = "bg";
  } 
});

input.addEventListener('mouseout', (e) => {
  if (e.target.tagName === 'INPUT') {
    input.className = "";
  }
});

or WITHOUT event object to meet your requirement :

const input = document.querySelector('input');

input.addEventListener('mouseover', () => {
    input.className = "bg";
});

input.addEventListener('mouseout', () => {
    input.className = "";
});