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The Event Family

Explore the main categories of events in JavaScript and understand how the Event object provides properties and methods to interact with these events. This lesson helps you grasp event-driven programming fundamentals by demonstrating how to use the Event object within handler functions to capture event type and target information for dynamic web interactions.

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Categories of events

Many types of events can be triggered by DOM elements. Here are the main event categories.

Category

Examples

Keyboard events

Pressing or releasing a key

Mouse events

Pressing or releasing a key

Window events

Loading or closing a page, resizing, scrolling

Form events

Changing focus on a form field, submitting a form.

Every event is associated to an Event object which has ...