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 event Property
EVENT Attribute | event Property

Sets or retrieves the event for which the script is written.

Syntax

HTML<SCRIPT EVENT = sEvent... >
Scripting[ sEvent = ] SCRIPT.event

Possible Values

sEventString that specifies or receives the event. The value for an onmouseover event, for example, is "onmouseover()".

The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.

Example

This example uses the EVENT attribute and the event property to handle the onclick event.

<SCRIPT ID=oButtonScript FOR="oButton" EVENT="onclick()">
    var sMessage1 = "Flip"
    var sMessage2 = "Flop"
    if (oButton.innerText == sMessage1) {
        oButton.innerText = sMessage2;
        }
    else {
    if (oButton.innerText == sMessage2) {
        oButton.innerText = sMessage1;
        }
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
:
<BUTTON ID="oButton" onmouseout="alert(oButtonScript.event)">Flip</BUTTON>
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Standards Information

This property is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 World Wide Web link.

Applies To

SCRIPT

See Also

event
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unclarification      Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry   |   Edit   |  

A mite-confusing just what this is ...

This property returns the string-value of the event name-specification, i.e. it might better be called eventNameSpec ... it may-or-not have parentheses, which are mostly-ignored anyway e.g. EVENT=onfocus((((( works, and returns id.event="onfocus(((((".

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