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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions 2-ui/2-events/01-introduction-browser-events/article.md
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## addEventListener

The fundamental problem of the aforementioned ways to assign handlers -- we can't assign multiple handlers to one event.
The fundamental problem of the aforementioned ways to assign handlers is that we *can't assign multiple handlers to one event*.

Let's say, one part of our code wants to highlight a button on click, and another one wants to show a message on the same click.

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input.onclick = function() { alert(2); } // replaces the previous handler
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Developers of web standards understood that long ago and suggested an alternative way of managing handlers using special methods `addEventListener` and `removeEventListener`. They are free of such a problem.
Developers of web standards understood that long ago and suggested an alternative way of managing handlers using the special methods `addEventListener` and `removeEventListener` which do not have the same constraints as event handlers.

The syntax to add a handler:

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