start | onstart event

Fires at the beginning of every loop of the marquee object.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element onstart = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onstart = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onstart", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("start", handler, useCapture)

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]: Type: IHTMLEventObj

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Remarks

The start method does not cause the onstart event to fire.

Initiates the next loop of the marquee contents.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Set the LOOP attribute to 1 or higher.
Omit the LOOP attribute so that the marquee loops indefinitely.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

Examples

This example shows how to use the onstart event on a marquee.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/onstartEX.htm

JavaScript


<body>
<p>An alert dialog box displays each time the onstart event fires.
<marquee onstart="alert('onstart fired')"
		 behavior=alernate loop=2>Marquee Text</marquee>
</body>