Tag: monitoring

Articles and experiments related to monitoring.

Monitor all Events on an Element

I needed to figure out how to monitor events on an element (like when a field is autofilled) and Chrome DevTools has a monitorEvents function, but Firefox doesn't. Since I couldn't find an equivalent in Firefox DevTools, I created my own JavaScript function that iterates through an element's properties, finds event listeners (e.g., "onclick"), extracts the event name (e.g., "click"), and attaches a console logger to each event. The code snippet and a corresponding gist are provided.

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