Name
Window.handleEvent( ) — pass an event to the appropriate handler
Availability
Netscape 4
Synopsis
window.handleEvent(event)document.handleEvent(event)layer.handleEvent(event)htmlElement.handleEvent(event)
Arguments
-
event An Event object to be handled.
Returns
Whatever value is returned by the event handler that is invoked to
handle event.
Description
handleEvent( ) is a method of the Window,
Document, and Layer classes and of all HTML elements that support
event handlers. When invoked on any object
o, handleEvent( )
determines the type of its event argument
and passes that Event object to the appropriate handler of
o.
See Also
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