CSCI 3342 Web Development
Fall 2024

Client-side page updates, Part II

Adding event handlers

And...Action!
The template subtree has a hidden part, the top row that contains a red delete button. In this part, you'll add event handlers to show and hide the delete buttons for each row on mouse over.
Add a mouseenter event handler to the whole <li> so that the delete row appears on mouse over
The event handler needs to be added after you clone the template and before you insert it. You can call addEventListener directly on the copied node (e.g. item). cloneNode does not copy event handlers, so you cannot pre-hook them onto the template. Since the code in that loop over the retreived data is getting more complex, you should refactor that code into a separate (named) function to keep it neat.

Note that mouseover and mouseout fire repeatedly as your mouse moves into and out of descendant elements. mouseenter and mouseleave do not fire when your mouse moves into and out of descendant elements, making them more appropriate in most situations.

Reference: JavaScript Mouse Events

Inside the event handler, you need to refer to the delete row to make it visible. There are two main ways to refer to the element that the event fired on. Note that you cannot use this as it doesn't not rebind to the element with an "arrow" function.
// in this example, we use 'e', the handler event parameter, to access the target of the event
some_node.addEventListener('click', e => {
  console.log("You clicked on " + e.currentTarget);
});
  // in this example, we use the reference to the element that we already have (it's still in scope)
  some_node.addEventListener('click', e => {
    console.log("You clicked on " + some_node);
  });
Once you have a reference to the root element, you use the same strategy that you used to manipulated the text, speaker, and source. Add a unique-to-the-template class to the template row that you want to make visible, and then use getElementsByClassName in the handler to get to it.
Add a corresponding mouseleave event handler to rehide the delete row