Name
EventException — signals an event-specific exception or error
Availability
DOM Level 2 Events
Constants
The following constant defines the one legal value for the
code property of an EventException object. Note
that this constant is a static property of EventException, not a
property of individual exception objects.
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unsigned short UNSPECIFIED_EVENT_TYPE_ERR = 0 An Event object has a
typeproperty that is uninitialized, or isnullor the empty string.
Properties
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unsigned short code An error code that provides some detail about what caused the exception. In the Level 2 DOM there is only one possible value for this field, defined by the constant above.
Description
An EventException is thrown by certain event-related methods to
signal a problem of some sort. (In the DOM Level 2 specification, an
exception of this type is thrown only by
EventTarget.dispatchEvent( )).
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