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How to check if an event was fired or not?

I'm using Chrome DevTools to debug JavaScript. In my script I bound a click event to an element using the jQuery bind() method.
How to check if that event was fired or not?
Edit
Sorry because I wasn't so specific, I know that I can use console.log() or set a breakpoint inside the event listener body. What I'm talking about here is an out of box feature of the Chrome DevTools that allows you to check that without using the console, e.g a tab that contains all the events that were fired with related information.

Regarding Chrome, checkout the monitorEvents() via the command line API.
Open the console via Menu > Tools > JavaScript Console.
Enter monitorEvents(window);
View the console flooded with events
...
mousemove MouseEvent {dataTransfer: ...}
mouseout MouseEvent {dataTransfer: ...}
mouseover MouseEvent {dataTransfer: ...}
change Event {clipboardData: ...}
...
There are other examples in the documentation. I'm guessing this feature was added after the previous answer.

Use console.log() for more user friendly check (console must be opened of course to see the result):
$("#myElement").bind("click", function() {
console.log("Fired!");
});
Or you can alert it, which is much more anoying tho:
$("#myElement").bind("click", function() {
alert("Fired!");
});

You can try below code to check if event fire or not.
var eventFire = false;
$("button").on("click", function() {
eventFire = true;
if(eventFire){
alert('Event Fired')
}
});

I normally use an alert (because we develop on Rails -- console is unreliable):
$(document).on("event", "#element", function() {
alert("event");
});
The bottom line is you're going to have to trigger some "visible" thing to see if the event fired. If it doesn't, you'll either not be binding to the correct element, or your event won't be firing
Hope this helps!

Using jQuery Try the following:
$("#el").on("click", function() {
console.log("Fired!");
});
You can then see if the event was fired or not. So basically Just add a log in your function of where the event is triggering should do the trick.

You can put an "alert('message');" in your event handler and see a popup each time the handler fires.
Or you can put a "console.log('message');" in your event handler and review the log to see all the times that the event fired.
Or you can put "debugger" in your event handler and step through your code as it executes in the chrome debugger.
There is also a way to dynamically find an event handler and insert a debugger break point in your code using the chrome dev tools elements panel.

Multiple click events for the same element?

Is it possible to have multiple click events for the same element? I have tried to simply have it like so:
$('#templates').click(function(e) {
do something..
});
$('#templates').click(function(e) {
do something else also..
});
Yet only the second event fires. I cannot find any decent answers explaining how to do this for a singular element in an on-click?
Note: the first click event calls server-side and loads a new PHP template (this may have an effect on what I can use in the second call I guess, as individually both clicks work but the server call does not work if I try a second click for the same element)

$('#templates').click(function(e) {
functionOne();
functionTwo();
});
function functionOne(){
}
function functionTwo(){
}
perhaps?

Please check this fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/DqSSd/
As you can see it should work well.
So please provide more information, and it would be better, if you provide JS fiddle as well.
Because so far the problem might be in:
second event is fired before first event returns the result
first event returns error from the server
some of events contains syntax error
etc
You may check something of those with investigation of NET calls to server (with Firebug or Chrome Developer toolbar).
Also for testing purposes you can type in console $('#templates').data("events"), so you will be able to see all events and handlers for particular element.

How can I see the event that is attached to an html element?

I am a new programmer and still learning.
This is the code that I am trying to figure out:
<div id="buy" class="buy button">Buy</div>
When I click on the div (button), some JavaScript code is executed but I don't know were it is. How can I tell what function is fired when click happens? Some how a listener is attached to this element.

In Google chrome's developer tools (click the wrench icon >Tools>Developer tools), select the element in the Elements tab, on the right open the 'Event Listeners' panel you'll will see all events

If you use Firefox and Firebug you can try installing FireQuery. It will make it so you can see the handlers bound by jQuery. http://firequery.binaryage.com/

You can't do it in a really good manner by "just" using ECMAscript itself. For instance, if there was a click event handler added by DOM Level 1 in the form of
document.getElementById('buy').onclick = function() {};
you can of course easily intercept that property on the node itself. Things are getting more complicated if DOM Level 2 comes into play with .addEventListener() respectevily .attachEvent(). Now you don't really have a "place" to look for where all the different listener functions where bound from.
It gets better by using jQuery. jQuery will hold all it's event handler functions in a special object which is linked to the DOM node of invocation. You can check for that by getting the .data()-expando property for a node like
$('#buy').data('events');
However, now I already described three different ways of binding event listeners to a node (actually its two because a library like jQuery also uses DOM Level 1 or 2 methods of course).
It's really getting ugly if an event is triggerd by delegation. That means, we bound our click event on some parent-node just waiting for that event bubbling up to us so we can check the target. So now we don't even have a direct relationship between the node and the event listener.
Conclusion here is, lookout of a browser plugin or probably a thing like VisualEvent.

You may use "Visual Event 2" script as a bookmark or same script as Chrome extension.
This script shows all js events attached to dom-elements.

Use jQuery("#buy").data('events');
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.data/ may be interesting.

Event handlers attached using traditional element.onclick= handler or HTML <element onclick="handler"> can be retrieved trivially from the element.onclick property from script or in-debugger.
Event handlers attached using DOM Level 2 Events addEventListener methods and IE's attachEvent cannot currently be retrieved from script at all. DOM Level 3 once proposed element.eventListenerList to get all listeners, but it is unclear whether this will make it to the final specification. There is no implementation in any browser today.

If you're using FireFox, you should have FireBug installed. Once you have that, you can install FireQuery, which will show you what jQuery events are bound to which objects.
http://getfirebug.com/
http://firequery.binaryage.com/

This is the easiest way I've found of how to do it:
http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Visual+Event
When working with events in Javascript, it is often easy to lose track
of what events are subscribed where. This is particularly true if you
are using a large number of events, which is typical in a modern
interface employing progressive enhancement. Javascript libraries also
add another degree of complexity to listeners from a technical point
of view, while from a developers point of view they of course can make
life much easier! But when things go wrong it can be difficult to
trace down why this might be.
It is due to this I've put together a Javascript bookmarklet called
Visual Event which visually shows the elements on a page that have
events subscribed to them, what those events are and the function that
the event would run when triggered. This is primarily intended to
assist debugging, but it can also be very interesting and informative
to see the subscribed events on other pages.
There's a bookmark button there you can drag to your toolbar (FF or Chrome), then just click the button on any page where you want to see the events attached. Works great! (at least for events attached by jQuery or other libraries).

Are you using jQuery? If so, you want to search for one of these three lines of code:
$("#buy").click //the div is refered by its id
or
$(".buy").click //the div is refered to by the style "buy"
or
$(".button").click //refered to by the style "button"
Most newer browsers have "Developer Tools" built into them by pressing F12 (at least in IE and Chrome). That may help you do some further debugging and tracing.

Below is something I’ve used in the past that I think may be what you're looking for. What this does is watch a property on a page element (In the example below, it's the document's "Title" property) and then display an alert with the JS callstack whenever that property is changed. You’ll need to get this into the DOM before whatever code you're trying to find fires, but hopefully you’ll be able to identify what’s causing the problem.
I would recommend using Firefox and getting Firebug for JavaScript debugging.
// Call stack code
function showCallStack() {
var f=showCallStack,result="Call stack:\n";
while((f=f.caller)!==null) {
var sFunctionName = f.toString().match(/^function (\w+)\(/)
sFunctionName = (sFunctionName) ? sFunctionName[1] : 'anonymous function';
result += sFunctionName;
result += getArguments(f.toString(), f.arguments);
result += "\n";
}
alert(result);
}
function getArguments(sFunction, a) {
var i = sFunction.indexOf(' ');
var ii = sFunction.indexOf('(');
var iii = sFunction.indexOf(')');
var aArgs = sFunction.substr(ii+1, iii-ii-1).split(',')
var sArgs = '';
for(var i=0; i<a.length; i++) {
var q = ('string' == typeof a[i]) ? '"' : '';
sArgs+=((i>0) ? ', ' : '')+(typeof a[i])+' '+aArgs[i]+':'+q+a[i]+q+'';
}
return '('+sArgs+')';
}
var watchTitle = function(id, oldval, newval) { showCallStack(); }
// !! This is all you should need to update, setting it to whatever you want to watch.
document.watch("title", watchTitle);

Right-click page, and choose to view the page's source
Find <script> tags
Look for $("#buy") and something mentioning onClick or .on("click",function(){...});
If you can't find it, search for something along these lines: document.getElementById("buy")
You have found the function, or code, where the event handler code is
$("#buy") is JQuery's way of saying find an element that has an id attribute of buy and if it has a . following it with some function, that function is acting upon the element that was found by JQuery.

How to trace or debug all available javascript events

How can I trace all Javascript events of a web page?
Is there a possibility to trace all events, even such without a handler attached?
Is there any tool out there, that can do this?
Clarification:
For example:
For a text input I can add an event handler for onblur and onchange.
If I (in the browser) change the value of the textfield and leave it, both eventhandlers are executed.
Now I would like to know which other events I "have missed" (the ones which would have been executed if there was an eventhandler attached).
Clarification2:
Can I get a list(on a given element) of all possible events I can attach an eventhandler?

Here is a list of Javascript events:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events

Here's a simple script to log all available events in the browser's console:
var ev = '',
out = [];
for (ev in window) {
if (/^on/.test(ev)) {
out[out.length] = ev;
}
}
console.log(out.join(', '));
Of course you'll get only the events of the browser you're currently using.

This is my favorite reference, it is updated more frequently than some of the other posts: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_event_reference?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=DOM%2FDOM_event_reference

You can use FireBug Profiling Tool on FF and Web Developer Tool on IE8 or Developer Tools on WebKit
EDIT:
Just curious though, what do want to do with those events?

How to debug JavaScript / jQuery event bindings with Firebug or similar tools?

I need to debug a web application that uses jQuery to do some fairly complex and messy DOM manipulation. At one point, some of the events that were bound to particular elements, are not fired and simply stop working.
If I had a capability to edit the application source, I would drill down and add a bunch of Firebug console.log() statements and comment/uncomment pieces of code to try to pinpoint the problem. But let's assume I cannot edit the application code and need to work entirely in Firefox using Firebug or similar tools.
Firebug is very good at letting me navigate and manipulate the DOM. So far, though, I have not been able to figure out how to do event debugging with Firebug. Specifically, I just want to see a list of event handlers bound to a particular element at a given time (using Firebug JavaScript breakpoints to trace the changes). But either Firebug does not have the capability to see bound events, or I'm too dumb to find it. :-)
Any recommendations or ideas? Ideally, I would just like to see and edit events bound to elements, similarly to how I can edit DOM today.

See How to find event listeners on a DOM node.
In a nutshell, assuming at some point an event handler is attached to your element (eg): $('#foo').click(function() { console.log('clicked!') });
You inspect it like so:
jQuery 1.3.x
var clickEvents = $('#foo').data("events").click;
jQuery.each(clickEvents, function(key, value) {
console.log(value) // prints "function() { console.log('clicked!') }"
})
jQuery 1.4.x
var clickEvents = $('#foo').data("events").click;
jQuery.each(clickEvents, function(key, handlerObj) {
console.log(handlerObj.handler) // prints "function() { console.log('clicked!') }"
})
See jQuery.fn.data (where jQuery stores your handler internally).
jQuery 1.8.x
var clickEvents = $._data($('#foo')[0], "events").click;
jQuery.each(clickEvents, function(key, handlerObj) {
console.log(handlerObj.handler) // prints "function() { console.log('clicked!') }"
})

There's a nice bookmarklet called Visual Event that can show you all the events attached to an element. It has color-coded highlights for different types of events (mouse, keyboard, etc.). When you hover over them, it shows the body of the event handler, how it was attached, and the file/line number (on WebKit and Opera). You can also trigger the event manually.
It can't find every event because there's no standard way to look up what event handlers are attached to an element, but it works with popular libraries like jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, YUI, etc.

You could use FireQuery. It shows any events attached to DOM elements in the Firebug's HTML tab. It also shows any data attached to the elements through $.data.

Here's a plugin which can list all event handlers for any given element/event:
$.fn.listHandlers = function(events, outputFunction) {
return this.each(function(i){
var elem = this,
dEvents = $(this).data('events');
if (!dEvents) {return;}
$.each(dEvents, function(name, handler){
if((new RegExp('^(' + (events === '*' ? '.+' : events.replace(',','|').replace(/^on/i,'')) + ')$' ,'i')).test(name)) {
$.each(handler, function(i,handler){
outputFunction(elem, '\n' + i + ': [' + name + '] : ' + handler );
});
}
});
});
};
Use it like this:
// List all onclick handlers of all anchor elements:
$('a').listHandlers('onclick', console.info);
// List all handlers for all events of all elements:
$('*').listHandlers('*', console.info);
// Write a custom output function:
$('#whatever').listHandlers('click',function(element,data){
$('body').prepend('<br />' + element.nodeName + ': <br /><pre>' + data + '<\/pre>');
});
Src: (my blog) -> http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/debug-jquery-events-with-listhandlers/

The WebKit Developer Console (found in Chrome, Safari, etc.) lets you view attached events for elements.
More detail in this Stack Overflow question

Use $._data(htmlElement, "events") in jquery 1.7+;
ex:
$._data(document, "events") or $._data($('.class_name').get(0), "events")

As a colleague suggested, console.log > alert:
var clickEvents = $('#foo').data("events").click;
jQuery.each(clickEvents, function(key, value) {
console.log(value);
})

jQuery stores events in the following:
$("a#somefoo").data("events")
Doing a console.log($("a#somefoo").data("events")) should list the events attached to that element.

Using DevTools in the latest Chrome (v29) I find these two tips very helpful for debugging events:
Listing jQuery events of the last selected DOM element
Inspect an element on the page
type the following in the console:
$._data($0, "events") //assuming jQuery 1.7+
It will list all jQuery event objects associated with it, expand the interested event, right-click on the function of the "handler" property and choose "Show function definition". It will open the file containing the specified function.
Utilizing the monitorEvents() command

ev icon next to elements
Within the Firefox Developer Tools' Inspector panel lists all events bound to an element.
First select an element with Ctrl + Shift + C, e.g. Stack Overflow's upvote arrow.
Click on the ev icon to the right of the element, and a dialogue opens:
Click on the pause sign || symbol for the event you want, and this opens the debugger on the line of the handler.
You can now place a breakpoint there as usual in the debugger, by clicking on the left margin of the line.
This is mentioned at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/Examine_event_listeners
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way for this to play nicely with prettyfication, it just seems to open at the minified line: How to beautify Javascript and CSS in Firefox / Firebug?
Tested on Firefox 42.

Looks like FireBug crew is working on an EventBug extension. It will add another panel to FireBug - Events.
"The events panel will list all of the event handlers on the page grouped by event type. For each event type you can open up to see the elements the listeners are bound to and summary of the function source." EventBug Rising
Although they cannot say right now when it will be released.

I also found jQuery Debugger in the chrome store. You can click on a dom item and it will show all events bound to it along with the callback function. I was debugging an application where events weren't being removed properly and this helped me track it down in minutes. Obviously this is for chrome though, not firefox.

According to this thread, there is no way in Firebug to view what events are attached to listeners on a DOM element.
It looks like the best you can do is either what tj111 suggests, or you could right-click the element in the HTML viewer, and click "Log Events" so you can see which events are firing for a particular DOM element. I suppose one could do that to see what events could be firing off particular functions.

With version 2.0 Firebug introduced an Events panel, which lists all events for the element currently selected within the HTML panel.
It can also display event listeners wrapped into jQuery event bindings in case the option Show Wrapped Listeners is checked, which you can reach via the Events panel's options menu.
With that panel the workflow to debug an event handler is as follows:
Select the element with the event listener you want to debug
Inside the Events side panel right-click the function under the related event and choose Set Breakpoint
Trigger the event
=> The script execution will stop at the first line of the event handler function and you can step debug it.

Firebug 2 does now incorporate DOM events debugging / inspection.