JavaScript Events Articles

Synopsis: Ryan Detert continues the series on events and event handlers in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. This time covering the mouse events

Techniques: Events, Event Handlers, onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmousemove, onmouseover, onmouseout

Synopsis: Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer offer an incredible amount of versatility. Events, their handlers in particular, have given web pages a more robust, interactive environment. In this article Ryan Detert explores event handlers available since JavaScript 1.2 it has been possible to capture and even cancel key presses.

Techniques: Events, Event Handlers, Capturing a Key Press, Cancelling a Key Press, onKeyDown, onKeyUp, onKeyPress

Synopsis: The latest versions of Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer offer an incredible amount of versatility to the programmer compared to the browsers of yore. Events, their handlers in particular, have given web pages a more robust, interactive environment. Explorer's latest version, 5.0, is the best equipped with event handlers, as you may handle any event from printing to pasting. In this article Ryan Detert explores events in both Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Explorer 4.0+

Techniques: Events, Event Handlers, event bubbling, releaseEvents(), routeEvent(), handleEvent(), enableExternalCapture(), disableExternalCapture()

Synopsis: Describes JavaScript Events and Event Handlers, explaining what they are and what we can do with them. It also includes a complete list of the events supported in each release of JavaScript.

Techniques: events, event handlers, onAbort, onBlur, onChange, onClick, onDblClick, onDragDrop, onError, onFocus, onKeyDown, onKeyPress, onKeyUp, onLoad, onMouseDown, onMouseMove, onMouseOut, onMouseOver, onMouseUp, onMove, onReset, onResize, onSelect, onSubmit, onUnload