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Home / Miscellaneous / Fire an event listener only once

Fire an event listener only once

Fire an event listener only once
const el = document.getElementById("btn");

function myClickHandler(){
  console.log('this click will only fire once')
}


el.addEventListener('click', myClickHandler, {
  once: true,
});

Source

https://github.com/roeib/JavaScript-snippets#fire-an-event-listener-only-once

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