jQuery Events: Explained in Simple Terms

Events are the different visitor actions that a web page can respond to.

A jQuery event is a representation of the exact moment when something occurs.

Examples of events in jQuery

• dragging the mouse over a component

• selecting a radio button

• selecting an element

The term "fires/fired" is frequently used for events.

Here are a few examples of DOM events:

Most DOM events have an equivalent jQuery method in jQuery.

You can do the following to assign a click event to all paragraphs on a page:

$("p"). click();

The following step is to specify what should happen if the event occurs. But, first, a function must be passed to the event:

$("p").click(function(){
  // enter your action here!!
});