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title: Detect authentic click events
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## Detect authentic click events

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.

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.

#### Here is an example of using this method

```javascript
// Assume there is a button in the HTML
const button = document.querySelector('button');

button.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  if (e.isTrusted) {
    console.log('Button clicked by a real user');
  } else {
    console.log('Button click simulated by a script');
  }
});

button.click() // Outputs "Button click simulated by a script"
```