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To see a basic demo of various event handlers take a look [here](https://github.com/Umuzi-org/demo-vanilla-dom-evens). This demo has three different `index.html` pages. Each of them attach event handlers to the different DOM elements in different ways.

- https://gomakethings.com/listening-for-click-events-with-vanilla-javascript/
- https://gomakethings.com/why-event-delegation-is-a-better-way-to-listen-for-events-in-vanilla-js/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Events/Creating_and_triggering_events
- https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css-js/html-js-dom-events/v/making-webpages-interactive-with-events
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events#Standard_events