Pure JavaScript

window.handleEvent()

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

							window.
							object.handleEvent(event)

Description

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

Example

Listing 7.543 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. Within 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 ...