Pure JavaScript

Text.handleEvent()

JavaScript1.2+, JScript3.0+ Nav4+, IE4+ Syntax

							text.handleEvent(event)

Description

The handleEvent() method of the Text object invokes the handler for the event specified. This method was added in JavaScript 1.2.

Example

Listing 7.497 has a single text box. The script tells the browser that it wants to intercept all Click events and that it wants the myClickHandler function to handle them. With in this function, the handleEvent() method of the text box has been specified to handle the click.

When the user clicks anywhere on the page, the onClick event handler in the <input type=TEXT> tag calls a function to change the text in the text box. The change is nothing more than a simple number that is incremented counting ...