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Nas Jones
7,849 PointsLong question
What is event bubbling and delegation my guess is that when an event listener is applied it also gets applied to its parents and ancestors, so you must be specific when applying an event listener.
Also, what is the event object? This one i don't even have a guess it confuses me a lot.
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey Nas Jones, the event object is basically just what it sounds like. It's a JS object that represents an event that has occurred. It has properties and methods just like any other object. And you can log it out to the console to expand and explore the object and its properties and methods.
Bubbling and capturing have to do with event propagation, which is basically how the event effects elements up and down the DOM tree.
And event delegation is the technique of adding a listener to a container element, and then conditionally determining which descendants of that element will actually trigger some effect when the event fires.
For more info and a deeper dive, you can read more about all these topics on MDN and W3Schools.
Nas Jones
7,849 PointsNas Jones
7,849 PointsI see, thanks for the help!