{"id":160,"date":"2023-11-23T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fem.flywheelsites.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2023-12-08T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:27:30","slug":"invokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/invokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Invokers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Keith Cirkel <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/keithamus\/pen\/abXbzqv?editors=1010\">demonstrates<\/a> a brand new concept (requires Chrome Canary and the Experimental Web Platform Features flag right now) called Invokers, <a href=\"https:\/\/open-ui.org\/components\/invokers.explainer\/\">a proposal from the Open UI group<\/a> that is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/keithamus\/invoker-buttons-polyfill#defaults\">polyfillable<\/a>. 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You &#8220;invoke&#8221; events directly on a specific element in the DOM: Then you can listen for the invoke event on that element. 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