Events
Widely available since 2018-01-29
The Event API and the addEventListener() method on objects that receive events (event targets) represent and handle significant things happening on a page. Many APIs fire events for a wide range of situations relating to those APIs, such as an image loading, a user clicking, or a value changing.
Learning resources on MDN
Browser support
- Chrome 1 Released on 2008-12-11
- Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
- Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
- Firefox 1 Released on 2004-11-09
- Firefox for Android 4 Released on 2011-03-29
- Safari 1 Released on 2003-06-23
- Safari on iOS 1 Released on 2007-06-29
Specifications
- HTML Standard (#events-2), from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).
- DOM Standard (#interface-customevent), from DOM Workstream (WHATWG).
- DOM Standard (#interface-eventtarget), from DOM Workstream (WHATWG).