How to select created element in DOM

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I'm trying to do a to-do app. I want to select newly created P elements in order to add event listeners to them. However, how can I select them - I could try document.querySelector but it only select the first one. If I choose to use document.querySelectorAll, I cannot choose them by their index, because I want to choose them at random, not one by one, according to their order. I can't predict the index of an added element.

HTML

<div class="container">
  <h2>Put your items for your to-do list:</h2>
  <input type="text" class="myForm" onfocus="this.value=''" placeholder="Your items...">
  <button class="btn">Submit</button>
</div>

JavaScript

const myForm = document.querySelector(".myForm");
const myFormBtn = document.querySelector(".btn");
const container = document.querySelector(".container");
let myElement;


myFormBtn.addEventListener("click", function(){
  console.log(myForm.value);

  if( myForm.value != "") {
   let para = document.createElement("p");
   para.setAttribute("class", "myToDo")
   let node = document.createTextNode(`✏ ${myForm.value}`)
   myElement = para.appendChild(node);

  container.appendChild(para);
  myForm.value = "";
  }


  let itemCreated = document.querySelector(".myToDo")

  itemCreated.addEventListener("click", function (){
      this.style.backgroundColor = "red";
  })
})

What I have tried:

document.querySelectorAll but I don't know the index of the elements - they will be chosen at random and their number is not specified

Posted 13-Oct-22 9:06am

Tom-learning-to-code

Updated 14-Oct-22 3:55am

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Member 15627495 14-Oct-22 4:39am

why don't you add the event listener before append to the dom ?

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Chris Copeland · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-13T23:58:00

Member 15627495 is correct, you don't need to wait until the new element has been added to the DOM before you add event listeners. By creating your new element you have immediate access to register the event listener as so:

JavaScript

let para = document.createElement("p");

para.addEventListener('click', () => {
  para.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
});

Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-14T03:55:00

You could simplify this code by using event delegation[^]:

JavaScript

const myForm = document.querySelector(".myForm");
const myFormBtn = document.querySelector(".btn");
const container = document.querySelector(".container");

container.addEventListener("click", e => {
    let target = e.target;
    if (target.tagName !== "P") { target = target.closest("p"); }
    if (!target || !target.matches(".myToDo")) { return; }
    
    target.style.backgroundColor = "red";
});

myFormBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
    console.log(myForm.value);
    if (myForm.value === "") { return; }
    
    const para = document.createElement("p");
    para.classList.add("myToDo");
    const node = document.createTextNode(`✏ ${myForm.value}`);
    para.appendChild(node);
    container.appendChild(para);
    myForm.value = "";
});

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How to select created element in DOM

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