Title: Media Library in plain javascript
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Media Library in plain javascript

 *  [stefanjanssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefanjanssen/)
 * (@stefanjanssen)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-in-plain-javascript/)
 * I’m working with wordpress and I’m creating a theme for myself. I want to use
   the wordpress media library in the admin panel. So after some searching I found
   this page: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Javascript_Reference/wp.media](https://codex.wordpress.org/Javascript_Reference/wp.media)
 * There are multiple tutorials to add this media library with jQuery, but I would
   like to do it in a plain javascript way. I’ve no trouble converting the jQuery
   to javascript except this piece of code:
 *     ```
       // When an image is selected in the media frame...
           frame.on( 'select', function() {
               // Removed unrelevant code
         });
       ```
   
 * Ive tried the following things:
 *     ```
       frame.select = function(){};
       frame.onselect = function(){};
       frame.addEventListener('select',function(){});
       ```
   
 * None of them are working, I get an error on the last one:
 * > frame.addEventListener is not a function
 * So I hope I can get some help from here. I love everyone trying to help, but 
   I don’t want to hear: “use jQuery”. The choice for not using jQuery is one I 
   made on purpose.
 * StefanJanssen
 * I also placed this question on StackOverflow a few days back:
    [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37240944/wordpress-media-library-in-plain-javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37240944/wordpress-media-library-in-plain-javascript)
   I will keep both the sites up to date with the newest information.

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