HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole (via) onclick="myfunction(event)"
is an idiom for passing the click event to a function - but how does it work? It turns out the answer is buried deep in the HTML spec - the browser wraps that string of code in a function(event) { ... that string ... }
function and makes the event available to its local scope that way.
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