Event handler/listener syntax

Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2019-03-27 00:48 -0700
Message-ID	<10e6bc28-bec2-4796-81af-a4159fc0cb96@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	Event handler/listener syntax
From	Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com>

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I find the eventhandler syntax weird "constructed" and hard to read, can you break out the actual code to to from eventhandler?

document.getElementById("try").addEventListener("click", function(){ 
   
}); 


instead

document.getElementById("try").addEventListener("click", dothis);



function dothis(){
   document.getElementById("text").innerText = "GeeksforGeeks"; 
}

If not why was the former syntax chosen?

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Event handler/listener syntax Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-03-27 00:48 -0700
  Re: Event handler/listener syntax Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-03-27 00:54 -0700
    Re: Event handler/listener syntax Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-03-27 00:57 -0700
      Re: Event handler/listener syntax Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-03-27 01:03 -0700

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