Interface EventTarget

EventTarget is a DOM interface implemented by objects that can receive events and may have listeners for them.

interface EventTarget {
    addEventListener(type: string, listener: EventListener | EventListenerObject, options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions): void;
    dispatchEvent(event: Event): boolean;
    removeEventListener(type: string, listener: EventListener | EventListenerObject, options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions): void;
}

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addEventListener dispatchEvent removeEventListener

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addEventListener

  • addEventListener(type, listener, options?): void

  • Adds a new handler for the type event. Any given listener is added only once per type and per capture option value.

    If the once option is true, the listener is removed after the next time a type event is dispatched.

    The capture option is not used by Node.js in any functional way other than tracking registered event listeners per the EventTarget specification. Specifically, the capture option is used as part of the key when registering a listener. Any individual listener may be added once with capture = false, and once with capture = true.

    Parameters

    Returns void

dispatchEvent

  • dispatchEvent(event): boolean

  • Dispatches a synthetic event event to target and returns true if either event's cancelable attribute value is false or its preventDefault() method was not invoked, and false otherwise.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

removeEventListener

  • removeEventListener(type, listener, options?): void

  • Removes the event listener in target's event listener list with the same type, callback, and options.

    Parameters

    Returns void

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