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Re: Event handler/listener syntax

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Den onsdag 27 mars 2019 kl. 08:54:14 UTC+1 skrev Jonas Thörnvall:
> Den onsdag 27 mars 2019 kl. 08:48:43 UTC+1 skrev Jonas Thörnvall:
> > 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?
> 
> Apparently i am not the only one finding the syntax a bit weird.
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16310423/addeventlistener-calls-the-function-without-me-even-asking-it-to

Isn't this the natural way to do it????
function message_me(m_text){
    alert(m_text)
}

second.addEventListener('click', message_me('shazam'))

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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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