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Kriesi
Kriesi

Reputation: 141

Is it possible to listen to all events triggered on an element

Is it possible to listen to all events that are triggered on a DOM element no matter the name of the event? And if its possible is there any reason one should no do that?

Unfortunately I was not able to find anything about that in either Stack Overflow or Google :(

I am planning to write a script that needs to respond to about two dozens different custom events and I was wondering if, instead of binding each event to the element I could just listen for all of them and then based on the event name, dynamically call a function..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1170

Answers (1)

Jack Marchant
Jack Marchant

Reputation: 56

You can't do it in the way you've suggested but this is a simple alternative:

const events = 'click mouseover mouseout';

events.split(' ').forEach(e => window.addEventListener(e, doStuff));

function doStuff(){...}

Upvotes: 2

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