Event Listeners

Understanding user interaction events

When a user visits your page, every interaction they have with the page (e.g., a mouse click, scrolling, window resizing, etc.) is recorded as a series of events. As programmers, we can use these events to bind JavaScript code to specific user interactions.

Hopefully, this code is making much more sense to you now that you’ve learned a bit about how JavaScript works.

• The variable button stores an element node object that represents the HTML button.

• Since button is an object, we can define properties on it.

• the onclick property acts ...