jQuery Event Methods

What are Events?

All the different visitors’ actions that a web page can respond to are called events.

An event represents the precise moment when something happens.

Examples:

• moving a mouse over an element
• selecting a radio button
• clicking on an element

The term “fires/fired” is often used with events. Example: “The keypress event is fired, the moment you press a key”.

Here are some common DOM events:

Mouse Events	Keyboard Events	Form Events	Document/Window Events
click	keypress	submit	load
dblclick	keydown	change	resize
mouseenter	keyup	focus	scroll
mouseleave		blur	unload

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jQuery Syntax For Event Methods

In jQuery, most DOM events have an equivalent jQuery method.

To assign a click event to all paragraphs on a page, you can do this:

$("p").click();

The next step is to define what should happen when the event fires. You must pass a function to the event:

$("p").click(function(){
 // action goes here!!
});