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Cancelling and Redirecting Events in IE5 5+
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/*
JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition
by Danny Goodman
John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001
*/
<HTML onClick="revealEvent('HTML', event)">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Event Cancelling & Redirecting</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
// display alert with event object info
function revealEvent(elem, evt) {
var msg = "Event (from " + evt.srcElement.tagName + " at "
msg += event.clientX + "," + event.clientY + ") is now at the "
msg += elem + " element."
alert(msg)
}
function init() {
document.onclick = docEvent
document.body.onclick = docBodEvent
}
function docEvent() {
revealEvent("document", event)
}
function docBodEvent() {
revealEvent("BODY", event)
}
function buttonEvent(form) {
revealEvent("BUTTON", event)
// cancel if checked (IE4+)
event.cancelBubble = form.bubbleCancelState.checked
// redirect if checked (IE5.5+)
if (form.redirect.checked) {
document.body.fireEvent("onclick", event)
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onLoad="init()">
<H1>Event Cancelling & Redirecting</H1>
<HR>
<FORM onClick="revealEvent('FORM', event)">
<P><BUTTON NAME="main1" onClick="buttonEvent(this.form)">
Button 'main1'
</BUTTON></P>
<P><INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="bubbleCancelState"
onClick="event.cancelBubble=true">Cancel Bubbling at BUTTON<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="redirect" onClick="event.cancelBubble=true">
Redirect Event to BODY</P>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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