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adding multiple event listeners to one element

Asked 2012-08-07T12:11:05.720
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So my dilemma is that I don't want to write the same code twice. Once for the click event and another for the touchstart event.

Here is the original code:

document.getElementById('first').addEventListener('touchstart', function(event) {
    do_something();
    });

document.getElementById('first').addEventListener('click', function(event) {
    do_something(); 
    });

How can I compact this? There HAS to be a simpler way!

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Unless your do_something function actually does something with any given arguments, you can just pass it as the event handler.

var first = document.getElementById('first');
first.addEventListener('touchstart', do_something, false);
first.addEventListener('click', do_something, false);
answered 2012-08-07T12:13:58.187

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