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Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fourth Edition
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Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fourth Edition

by H. M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., P. J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
September 2007
Beginner
1424 pages
43h 19m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 13. JavaScript: Events

 

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

 
 --Horace Walpole
 

Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?

 
 --Lewis Carroll
 

The user should feel in control of the computer; not the other way around. This is achieved in applications that embody three qualities: responsiveness, permissiveness, and consistency.

 
 --Inside Macintosh, Volume 1 Apple Computer, Inc., 1985
 

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

 
 --Allan Massie

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • The concepts of events, event handlers and event bubbling.

  • To create and register event handlers that respond to mouse and keyboard events.

  • To use the event object to get information about ...

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