JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

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

Window.routeEvent( ); Chapter 19