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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development Build and test Lightning Components for Salesforce Lightning Experience using Salesforce DX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124677
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Shrivatsava Mohit Shrivatsava
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Lightning Component Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Salesforce DX 3. Lightning Component Building Blocks 4. The Lightning JavaScript API 5. Events in the Lightning Component Framework 6. Lightning Data Service and Base Components 7. Using External JavaScript Libraries in Lightning Components 8. Debugging Lightning Components 9. Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component 10. Taking Lightning Components out of Salesforce Using Lightning Out 11. Lightning Flows 12. Making Components Available for Salesforce Mobile and Communities 13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs 14. Unit Testing Lightning Components 15. Publishing Lightning Components on AppExchange 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Browser events

Before we dig into how events work in Lightning Components, it is important to briefly touch on JavaScript fundamentals in browser events. In this section, we will explore the bubbling and capturing phases in browser events.

Browser events are signals that are fired on actions (such as page loads, button clicks, key presses, and form submissions). The full list of events supported by browsers can be viewed in the Mozilla developer docs, at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events.

JavaScript provides various ways to attach event handlers. Some of them are as follows:

  • Event handler attributes can be attached with an HTML DOM element. Event handler attributes on DOM elements can consist of HTML events, such as onClick, onLoad, onmouseover, onkeyup, onfocus, and many more. The example code for invoking a JavaScript function on a button click...
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