--- title: Listening for element events with Compose for Web description: A tutorial on handling browser events in Compose for Web (Kotlin). Covers basic event listeners like onClick and onInput using AttributesBuilder, then dives... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/listening-for-element-events-with-compose-for-web-srtuobgfe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Listening for element events with Compose for Web | daily.dev og:description: A tutorial on handling browser events in Compose for Web (Kotlin). Covers basic event listeners like onClick and onInput using AttributesBuilder, then dives... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/listening-for-element-events-with-compose-for-web-srtuobgfe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SRTuObgfE.png og:image:alt: Listening for element events with Compose for Web og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Listening for element events with Compose for Web **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A tutorial on handling browser events in Compose for Web (Kotlin). Covers basic event listeners like onClick and onInput using AttributesBuilder, then dives into a more complex drag-and-drop example using SideEffect to bridge imperative JS-style event handling (onmousedown, onmousemove, onmouseup) into the Compose declarative model. Includes full code snippets for a draggable window component built with 98.css styling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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