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I need to detect focus event on all HTML input elements on page without addEventListener and without

Time:09-01

I need to detect focus event on all HTML input elements on the page without using addEventListener and without HTML attributes

I was able to do that with the click event by:

onclick = () => { 
  // do something
}  

But when i do like that for onfocus it just fires when the focus occurs in the document itself.

Is there a way I could to it the same way for onfocus and onchange on input and select elements, respectively?

EDIT

The reason why i can't use the HTML attributes it's because it will be on a static script that will load through a CDN in the page. Thus, i do not have access to the HTML code itself and i can't use the HTML attributes.

About the addEventListener, I don't want use for performance issues, because i would have to loop for every elements and it would be costly for some browsers and devices memories

Furthermore, if the element on pages change dynamically, like in a SPA, i would have to listen to this change and loop through all of them again, which would cause performance issues.

CodePudding user response:

A simple idea using delegated listeners attached to the document.

document.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
  console.log("You clicked on "   e.target.nodeName);
}, true);

document.addEventListener("focus", (e) => {
  console.log(e.target.nodeName   " ("   e.target.name   ") has focus");
}, true);

document.addEventListener("blur", (e) => {
  console.log(e.target.nodeName   " ("   e.target.name   ") lost focus");
}, true);
.red {
  background-color: red;
}
<div class='red'>
<p>some text</p>
<input type='text' name='username'>
</div>

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