adding multiple event listeners to one element

Question

So my dilemma is that I don\'t want to write the same code twice. Once for the click event and another for the touchstart event.

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Answer 1

Unless your do_something function actually does something with any given arguments, you can just pass it as the event handler.

var first = document.getElementById('first');
first.addEventListener('touchstart', do_something, false);
first.addEventListener('click', do_something, false);