Kevin Powell - Community•2y ago

Weird button hitbox(click-area?)

Hello! I'm having problem with button click-area when using Event Delegation. Basically only a small part of button is respond to being clicked if button has content inside of it, but if I directly target it with EventListener it works fine. Why is that? Picture below is example of a button, consisted of <img> and <p> tag. It only registers click when clicked between the "arrow" and "Reply" text when being targeted by EventDelegation, but works fine when you attach Listener to it. Project link below if you want to test it. When you click in between arrow and text, in console "Not working" text will appear, when it should appear when clicked on the whole button.

document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
    if (event.target.matches('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working');
    }
});

document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
    if (event.target.matches('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working');
    }
});

Code being used to show that message, where "reply-btn" is class name of the whole button.

<button class="reply-btn">
                    <img class="reply-icon" src="images/icon-reply.svg" alt="Reply Icon">
                    <p class="reply-p">Reply</p>
                </button>

<button class="reply-btn">
                    <img class="reply-icon" src="images/icon-reply.svg" alt="Reply Icon">
                    <p class="reply-p">Reply</p>
                </button>

Button HTML Project link: https://astonishing-cupcake-035f30.netlify.app/

18 Replies

13eck•2y ago

Try using event. currentTarget. That will work as the event bubbles up the DOM tree. event.target is what is actually clicked on. So if you click on the image the event.target will be the image. But if you use event. currentTarget it’ll fire as the click event propagates upward.

DovahOP•2y ago

Like this:

if (event.currentTarget.matches('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working :(');
    }

if (event.currentTarget.matches('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working :(');
    }

13eck•2y ago

Almost. Your console log statement is a bit off :p

DovahOP•2y ago

It shoots me an an error xD

13eck•2y ago

Also, TIL that .matches() is a thing! What’s the error?

DovahOP•2y ago

Just a sec 😄 Uncaught TypeError: event.currentTarget.matches is not a function at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (index.js:219:26) 🤔 Yeah for .matches(), it was in example of Event Delegation so I just pasted it into code xD

13eck•2y ago

Apparently .currentTarget doesn’t return an Element so it doesn’t have the .matches() method Best thing to do is log the current target and see what it shows. There will be a way to get the class list

DovahOP•2y ago

Wait I'm confused to what I need to do? maybe just use contains?

13eck•2y ago

You need to log the current target and see what methods and properties it has

DovahOP•2y ago

How do I do that? 😄 If it does not work With matches

13eck•2y ago

Don’t try to match. Just console.log(event.currentTarget) And look at the log

DovahOP•2y ago

yeah but EventListenr is on the document

13eck•2y ago

One of the items logged will be the weekend element

DovahOP•2y ago

If I do not say that I'm targeting ('.reply-button') it will return document ? That is what is confusing me

13eck•2y ago

Was on my phone, working from memory. Give me a sec to troubleshoot on my computer

DovahOP•2y ago

Sure! 😄

13eck•2y ago

Ok, got it:

document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
    if (event.target.closest('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working');
    }
});

document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
    if (event.target.closest('.reply-btn')) {
        console.log('Not working');
    }
});

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/closest event.target.closest({CSS selector here}) is what I was missing

The closest() method of the Element interface traverses the element and its parents (heading toward the document root) until it finds a node that matches the specified CSS selector.

DovahOP•2y ago

Oh nice 😄 Thanks! I'll try it Yup! Works! 😄 Thanks!

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