Event properties
Key related properties:
Mouse related properties:
Element related properties:
Attribute related properties:
Event information properties:
Drag and drop properties:
Data binding properties:
Cross-document message properties:
Additional properties:
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| altKey (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the left or right ALT key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| altLeft (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the left ALT key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| charCode (event) |
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Retrieves the Unicode character code of the key that generated the onkeypress event. | ||||||||||
| ctrlKey (event) |
Sets or retrieves whether the left or right CTRL key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| ctrlLeft (event) |
Sets or retrieves whether the left CTRL key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| data (event) |
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Returns the characters entered in case of the textInput event or the contents of the message for the onmessage event. | ||||||||||
| isChar (event) |
Returns whether the character that belongs to the current event is a key character or not. | |||||||||||
| keyCode (event) |
Sets or retrieves the Unicode character code of the key that generated the onkeypress event and the Unicode key code of the key that generated the onkeydown and onkeyup events. | |||||||||||
| metaKey (event) |
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Retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the META key was down at the time when the event occurred. | ||||||||||
| shiftKey (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the left or right SHIFT key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| shiftLeft (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the left SHIFT key was down at the time when the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| which (event) |
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Returns the Unicode character or key code of the key or the identifier of the mouse button that was pressed when the current event fired. |
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| button (event) |
Sets or retrieves the mouse button(s) that were pressed at the time when the current event was fired. | |||||||||||
| clientX (event) |
Sets or returns the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the browser window's client area. | |||||||||||
| clientY (event) |
Sets or returns the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the browser window's client area. | |||||||||||
| detail (event) |
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Returns an integer value that specifies additional information about the event. | ||||||||||
| layerX (event) |
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Retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the closest positioned ancestor element of the element that fires the event. | ||||||||||
| layerY (event) |
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Retrieves the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the closest positioned ancestor element of the element that fires the event. | ||||||||||
| offsetX (event) |
Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the offsetParent element of the element that fires the event. | |||||||||||
| offsetY (event) |
Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the offsetParent element of the element that fires the event. | |||||||||||
| pageX (event) |
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Retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the document. | ||||||||||
| pageY (event) |
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Retrieves the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the document. | ||||||||||
| screenX (event) |
Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the screen. | |||||||||||
| screenY (event) |
Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the screen. | |||||||||||
| wheelDelta (event) |
Returns an integer value indicating the distance that the mouse wheel rolled. | |||||||||||
| x (event) |
Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the closest relatively positioned ancestor element of the element that fires the event. | |||||||||||
| y (event) |
Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the top-left corner of the closest relatively positioned ancestor element of the element that fires the event. |
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| currentTarget (event) |
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Returns a reference to the element whose event listener is being processed. | ||||||||||
| explicitOriginalTarget (event) |
Returns a reference to the exact object on which the event originally occurred. | |||||||||||
| fromElement (event) |
Returns a reference to the object that lost the active state or that the mouse pointer left. | |||||||||||
| originalTarget (event) |
Returns a reference to the object on which the event originally occurred. | |||||||||||
| relatedNode (event) |
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Returns a reference to the node on which the mutation event occurred. | ||||||||||
| relatedTarget (event) |
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Returns a reference to the related element in case of onmouseover, onmouseout, dragenter and dragexit events. | ||||||||||
| srcElement (event) |
Retrieves a reference to the object on which the event occurred. | |||||||||||
| target (event) |
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Returns a reference to the object on which the event originally occurred. | ||||||||||
| toElement (event) |
Returns a reference to the object that the mouse pointer entered. | |||||||||||
| view (event) |
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Returns a reference to the AbstractView object where the event occurred. |
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| attrChange (event) |
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Returns an integer that specifies the type of the action that modified an attribute. | ||||||||||
| attrName (event) |
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Retrieves a string that specifies the name of the modified attribute. | ||||||||||
| newValue (event) |
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Retrieves a string that specifies the current value of the modified attribute or TextNode element. | ||||||||||
| prevValue (event) |
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Retrieves a string that specifies the previous value of the modified attribute or TextNode element. | ||||||||||
| propertyName (event) |
Specifies or retrieves a string that contains the name of the property that is changed. |
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| bubbles (event) |
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Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the current event can propagate up the DOM hierarchy or not. | ||||||||||
| cancelable (event) |
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Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the current event can be canceled or not. | ||||||||||
| cancelBubble (event) |
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Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the current event should propagate up the DOM hierarchy, or not. | ||||||||||
| eventPhase (event) |
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Returns an integer value that indicates the current processing phase of an event. | ||||||||||
| isTrusted (event) |
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Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the event is a trusted event or not. | ||||||||||
| repeat (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the onkeydown event is being repeated (a key has been down long enough). | |||||||||||
| returnValue (event) |
Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the current event is canceled. | |||||||||||
| timeStamp (event) |
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Returns the time in milliseconds when the current event occurred. | ||||||||||
| type (event) |
Retrieves a string that represents the type of the event, such as "mouseout", "click", etc. |
| Property | Support | Description | ||||||||||
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| dataTransfer (event) |
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Represents a drag-and-drop operation. | ||||||||||
| dropEffect (dataTransfer) |
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Specifies or retrieves the type of the drag-and-drop operation. | ||||||||||
| effectAllowed (dataTransfer) |
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Specifies or retrieves the allowed types of the current drag-and-drop operation. | ||||||||||
| files (dataTransfer) |
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Returns a FileList collection that represents the dropped files during the current drag-and-drop operation. | ||||||||||
| mozItemCount (dataTransfer) |
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Returns the number of dragged items during the current drag-and-drop operation. | ||||||||||
| mozUserCancelled (dataTransfer) |
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Returns whether the current drag-and-drop operation has been canceled by the user. | ||||||||||
| types (dataTransfer) |
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Returns a DOMStringList collection that contains the available data formats for the first item of the current drag-and-drop operation. |
| Property | Support | Description | |||||
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| bookmarks (event) |
Represents a collection of ADO bookmarks associated with the rows affected by the current event. | ||||||
| boundElements (event) |
Represents a collection of elements bound to the data set on which the current event occurred. | ||||||
| dataFld (event) |
Sets or returns the name of the modified data column in case of the oncellchange event. |
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| data (event) |
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Returns the characters entered in case of the textInput event or the contents of the message for the onmessage event. | |||||||||||||||
| domain (event) |
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Returns the hostname of the server that served the document that caused the onmessage event. | |||||||||||||||
| lastEventId (event) |
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Returns the identifier of the last event in case of onmessage events. | |||||||||||||||
| origin (event) |
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Returns the scheme, hostname and port of the document that caused the onmessage event. | |||||||||||||||
| source (event) |
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Returns a reference to the window object that contains the document that caused the onmessage event. | |||||||||||||||
| uri (event) |
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Returns the location of the document that caused the onmessage event. |
| Property | Support | Description | |||||
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| event (script) |
Sets or retrieves an event that the script element should listen for. | ||||||
| event (window) |
Represents an object that contains information about an event that has occurred. | ||||||
| horizontalOverflow (event) |
Retrieves a Boolean value that indicates the horizontal overflow state of an element when the overflowchanged event occurred. | ||||||
| orient (event) |
Retrieves whether the visibility of the horizontal or vertical scrollbar changed when the overflowchanged event occurred. | ||||||
| qualifier (event) |
Sets or retrieves the name of the default data member. Use this property with data binding events (such as ondatasetcomplete). | ||||||
| rangeOffset (event) |
Returns the end position of the current selection relative to the element referred to by the rangeParent. | ||||||
| rangeParent (event) |
Returns a reference to the element where the selection ends. | ||||||
| reason (event) |
Sets or retrieves an integer value that indicates whether the data transfer was successful or not. Use this property with ondatasetcomplete events. | ||||||
| srcFilter (event) |
Specifies or retrieves a reference to the filter object that generated the onfilterchange event. | ||||||
| srcUrn (event) |
Sets or retrieves the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the behavior that fired the event. | ||||||
| verticalOverflow (event) |
Retrieves a Boolean value that indicates the vertical overflow state of an element when the overflowchanged event occurred. |
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