target child event

Target Child Event

Target Child Event is a term used in web development when you want to trigger an event on a child element while clicking on its parent element. This technique can be used to improve user experience as it reduces the number of clicks required to perform an action.

Let me share my personal experience with this. I was working on a project where there was a dropdown menu that appeared when the user clicks on a button. The dropdown menu had several child items, and each item had a different action associated with it. Initially, I had set up separate click events for each child item, but it was not an optimal solution as it required more clicks to perform an action.

Then I learned about the Target Child Event technique. Using this technique, I was able to trigger the click event of the child item while clicking on its parent item. This reduced the number of clicks required to perform an action, and the user experience improved.

How to Implement Target Child Event

To implement Target Child Event in your code, you need to use JavaScript. Here's how you can do it:

const parent = document.querySelector('.parent');
const child = document.querySelector('.child');

parent.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
  if (event.target === this) {
    child.click();
  }
});

In the code above, we first select the parent and child elements using document.querySelector(). Then we add a click event listener to the parent element. In the event listener function, we check if the event target is equal to the parent element. If it is, we trigger a click event on the child element using child.click(). This will execute the click event of the child element while clicking on its parent element.

Another Way to Implement Target Child Event

There's another way to implement Target Child Event using event delegation. In this approach, you add a click event listener to the parent element and check if the target element has a specific class. If it does, you perform the action associated with that class.

const parent = document.querySelector('.parent');

parent.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
  if (event.target.classList.contains('child-1')) {
    // Perform action for child-1
  } else if (event.target.classList.contains('child-2')) {
    // Perform action for child-2
  } else if (event.target.classList.contains('child-3')) {
    // Perform action for child-3
  }
});

In this code, we first select the parent element using document.querySelector(). Then we add a click event listener to the parent element. In the event listener function, we check if the target element has a specific class using classList.contains(). If it does, we perform the action associated with that class.

These are the two ways to implement Target Child Event in your code. Choose the one that suits your requirements.