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Event helper features - jQuery Tutorial
From the course: jQuery Essential Training
Event helper features
- [Narrator] You've probably gotten the sense by now that jQuery recognizes that there are certain common patterns in web development, that it tries to make a little bit less tedious and easier for developers to address. Event handling is no different. Let's click on the API documentation link here on the jQuery website, and I'll go down to the events section. And I'm going to click on the browser events link. You can see here that there's a category for browser events that provides short hand methods for attaching common event handlers to certain things like resizing, and error handling, and scrolling, but it doesn't stop there. If we click on form events, you'll notice that there are a whole bunch of shorthand methods for handling form events, like form submission, and focus changes, and so on. And once again, let's go ahead and click on keyboard events. Well there's shorthand methods for handling things like key presses. Let's go look at mouse events. I think you get the idea…
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