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title: Detect authentic click events
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## Detect authentic click events
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There might be a situation where you want to do some specific things only if the click event was genuinely triggered by a user and not by some script to simulate a click event.
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There is a very simple solution to this problem, javascript event object provides us with a `.istrusted` property, which can be used to tell the difference.
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#### Here is an example of using this method
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```javascript
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// Assume there is a button in the HTML
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const button = document.querySelector('button');
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button.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
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if (e.isTrusted) {
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console.log('Button clicked by a real user');
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} else {
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console.log('Button click simulated by a script');
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}
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});
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button.click() // Outputs "Button click simulated by a script"
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```
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