Creating a Flexible and Robust Event Management System with JavaScript
"Create cross-browser solution that will easily let us manage all of our event-handling needs using standard JavaScript"
With the power of modern JavaScript libraries like jQuery and the YUI, handling events on the client-side has become a trivial matter that we mostly don’t need to concern ourselves with anymore. However, there may be times when we can’t use a framework to handle things for us. Additionally, for a better understanding of how JavaScript libraries work, it's useful to understand the principles of the underlying raw JavaScript.
In this tutorial we’ll look at how we can create cross-browser solution that will easily let us manage all of our event-handling needs using standard JavaScript; we'll look at how we can easily add and remove event-handlers, and how we can stop events. This tutorial may not be of interest to anyone that isn’t concerned with learning how JavaScript works.
Dan Wellman
Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based in the UK. Dan has written three books so far; the latest, jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery, was released at the end of 2009.
Dan has been writing web development tutorials for over 5 years and works by day for a local digital media agency in his home town of Southampton.
