Name
Window.captureEvents( ) — specify event types to be captured Netscape 4
Availability
Synopsis
window
.captureEvents(eventmask
)document
.captureEvents(eventmask
)layer
.captureEvents(eventmask
)
Arguments
-
eventmask
An integer that specifies the type of events that the window, document, or layer should capture. This value should be one of the static event type constants defined by the Event class, or it should be a group of event type constants combined with the bitwise-OR (
|
) or addition operators.
Description
captureEvents( )
is a method of the Window,
Document, and Layer classes. Its purpose is the same for all three:
in the Netscape 4 event model, captureEvents( )
specifies that all events of a given type or types occurring within
the specified window
,
document
, or
layer
should be passed to the window,
document, or layer instead of to the object on which they actually
occurred.
The type of the events to be captured is specified by
eventmask
, a bitmask comprised of static
constants defined by the Event class. See the
“Event.TYPE” reference page for a full list of these
bitmask constants.
See Also
Event, Window.handleEvent( ), Window.releaseEvents( ), Window.routeEvent( ); Chapter 19; EventTarget.addEventListener( ) in the DOM reference section
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