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title: "How to remove the Event Listener?"  
description: "How to remove the Event Listener?"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2011-03-18  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/529/how-to-remove-the-event-listener  
category: "javascript"  
tags: ["javascript"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to remove the Event Listener?

<script type="text/javascript">\
document.getElementById("hitme4").removeEventListener("click", hitme4, false);\
</script>\
\
Key Events\
\
"onkeydown", "onkeypress", "onkeyup" events are supported both in ie and standards-based browsers.\
\
<script type="text/javascript">\
function setStatus(name,evt) {\
evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null); /* ie or standard? */\
var charCode = evt.charCode;\
var status = document.getElementById("keyteststatus");\
var text = name +": "+evt.keyCode;\
status.innerHTML = text;\
status.textContent = text;\
}\
</script>\
<form action="">\
<input type="text" name="keytest" size="1" value=""\
onkeyup="setStatus('keyup',event)"\
onkeydown="setStatus('keydown',event)"\
/>\
<p id="keyteststatus">status</p>\
</form>

## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

<script type="text/javascript">\
document.getElementById("hitme4").removeEventListener("click", hitme4, false);\
</script>\
\
Key Events\
\
"onkeydown", "onkeypress", "onkeyup" events are supported both in ie and standards-based browsers.\
\
<script type="text/javascript">\
function setStatus(name,evt) {\
evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null); /* ie or standard? */\
var charCode = evt.charCode;\
var status = document.getElementById("keyteststatus");\
var text = name +": "+evt.keyCode;\
status.innerHTML = text;\
status.textContent = text;\
}\
</script>\
<form action="">\
<input type="text" name="keytest" size="1" value=""\
onkeyup="setStatus('keyup',event)"\
onkeydown="setStatus('keydown',event)"\
/>\
<p id="keyteststatus">status</p>\
</form>


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