Beginning jQuery: From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins

© Jack Franklin, Russ Ferguson 2017

Jack Franklin and Russ Ferguson, Beginning jQuery, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3027-5_5

5. An Introduction to Events

Jack Franklin¹  and Russ Ferguson²

(1)Aviation House, GDS, 6th Floor Aviation House, London, UK

(2)Apt 129, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

When you write JavaScript in the browser, you’re writing event-driven code. Most of your code will be executed when something happens, such as having content slide in when a user clicks a link. Even though you might not have realized it, you’ve already written some event-based code:

$(function() {});

You’ve been writing code that runs when the document is ready, as previously explained. This is an event that you’re attaching code to. It is also known as binding. Keeping ...