AddEventListener to the results from querySelectorAll in JS

AddEventListener to the results from querySelectorAll #

To add an event listener to the results from the querySelectorAll method:

Use the forEach() method to iterate over the collection of elements.
Call the addEventListener() method on each element in the collection.
Pass the event type and a function to be invoked when the event is triggered as parameters to the addEventListener method.

Here is the HTML for the examples in this article.

index.html

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="box">Box 1</div>
    <div class="box">Box 2</div>
    <div class="box">Box 3</div>

    <script src="index.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

And here is the related JavaScript code.

index.js

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const boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box');

boxes.forEach(box => {
  box.addEventListener('click', function handleClick(event) {
    console.log('box clicked', event);

    box.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: salmon;');
  });
});

We used the document.querySelectorAll method to select all DOM elements with a class of box.

The querySelectorAll method returns a NodeList, so we are able to use the NodeList.forEach method to iterate over the result.

We used the addEventListener to add a click event listener to every element in the collection.

If you need a list of all of the available event types, check out this MDN events list.

Each time the element is clicked we set its background color to salmon.

An alternative, but also very common approach is to use the for...of loop to iterate over the results returned from the querySelectorAll method.

index.js

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const boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box');

for (const box of boxes) {
  box.addEventListener('click', function handleClick(event) {
    console.log('box clicked', event);
    box.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: salmon;');
  });
}

The code snippet above achieves the same result, but this time we used the for...of loop to iterate over the NodeList.

If you need to select elements with different classes, ids, tags, etc, you can pass multiple, comma-separated selectors to the document.querySelectorAll() method.

index.html

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="box1">Box 1</div>
    <div class="box2">Box 2</div>
    <div class="box3">Box 3</div>

    <script src="index.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

And here is the related JavaScript code.

index.js

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const boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box1, .box2, .box3');

boxes.forEach(box => {
  box.addEventListener('click', function handleClick(event) {
    console.log('box clicked', event);
    box.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: salmon;');
  });
});

We passed multiple, comma-separated selectors to the querySelectorAll method to get a collection of the DOM elements that have a class of box1, box2 and box3.

AddEventListener to the results from querySelectorAll in JS

AddEventListener to the results from querySelectorAll #

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