jQuery is tailor-made to respond to events in an HTML page.
What are Events?
All the different visitors’ actions that a web page can respond to are called events.
An event represents the precise moment when something happens.
Examples:
- moving a mouse over an element
- selecting a radio button
- clicking on an element
The term “fires/fired” is often used with events. Example: “The keypress event is fired, the moment you press a key”. Continue reading jQuery Event Methods