How to find event listeners on a DOM node when debugging or from the JavaScript code

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I have a page where some event listeners are attached to input boxes and select boxes. 

Events are attached using:

  1. Prototype's Event.observe;
  2. DOM's addEventListener;
  3. As element attribute element.onclick.

Is there a way to find out which event listeners are observing a particular DOM node and for what event?

Jun 8, 2020 in Java-Script by kartik
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Hii @kartik,

It is possible to list all event listeners in JavaScript. You just have to hack the prototype's method of the HTML elements (before adding the listeners).

function reportIn(e){
    var a = this.lastListenerInfo[this.lastListenerInfo.length-1];
    console.log(a)
}


HTMLAnchorElement.prototype.realAddEventListener = HTMLAnchorElement.prototype.addEventListener;

HTMLAnchorElement.prototype.addEventListener = function(a,b,c){
    this.realAddEventListener(a,reportIn,c); 
    this.realAddEventListener(a,b,c); 
    if(!this.lastListenerInfo){  this.lastListenerInfo = new Array()};
    this.lastListenerInfo.push({a : a, b : b , c : c});
};

Now every anchor element (a) will have a lastListenerInfo property wich contains all of its listeners. And it even works for removing listeners with anonymous functions.

Another method

This solution will work only on Google Chrome or Chromium-based browsers.

We are going to use this website as an example.

Let’s say you wanted to find all the event listeners attached to the search icon DOM element.

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Right-click on the search icon button and choose “inspect” to open the Chrome developer tools.

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Once the dev tools are open, switch to the “Event Listeners” tab and you will see all the event listeners bound to the element.

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You can expand any event listener by clicking the right-pointing arrowhead.

When you expand an event listener and hover over the element, the “remove” button will appear. It can be used to delete the event listener.

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Clicking on the filename main.min.js:6 takes you directly to the event listener callback function source by automatically switching you to the “sources” tab.

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As you can see in the screenshot below, you have been taken to the exact location of the event listener callback function.

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We can’t see the event listener code properly right now since the code is minified.

Click on the {} icon to format the code.

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Hope it helps! 

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answered Jun 8, 2020 by Niroj
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