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# Component Handling Its Own Event

A component can handle its own event by using the `<aura:handler>` tag in its markup.

The `action` attribute of `<aura:handler>` sets the client-side controller action to handle the event. For example:

```javascript
<aura:registerEvent name="sampleComponentEvent" type="c:compEvent"/>
<aura:handler name="sampleComponentEvent" event="c:compEvent"
    action="{!c.handleSampleEvent}"/>

```

**note:** The `name` attributes in `<aura:registerEvent>` and `<aura:handler>` must match, since each event is defined by its name.

**See Also**  


-   [Handle Component Event of Instantiated Component](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/events-component-handling-child.md)