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Using onDragEnter and onDragLeave Event Handlers
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/*
JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition
by Danny Goodman
John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001
*/
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>onDragEnter and onDragLeave Event Handlers</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function showEnter() {
status = "Entered at: " + new Date()
event.returnValue = false
}
function clearMsg() {
status = ""
event.returnValue = false
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1 onDragEnter="showEnter()" onDragLeave="clearMsg()">
onDragEnter and onDragLeave Event Handlers
</H1>
<HR>
<P>Select any character(s) from this paragraph,
and slowly drag it around the page. When the dragging action enters the
large header above, the status bar displays when the onDragEnter
event handler fires. When you leave the header, the message is cleared
via the onDragLeave event handler.</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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