Pure JavaScript

Select.handleEvent()

JavaScript1.2+, JScript3.0+ Nav4+, IE4+ Syntax

							select.handleEvent(event)

Description

The handleEvent() method of the Select object invokes the handler for the event specified. This method was added in JavaScript 1.2.

Example

Listing 7.467 has a single select box. The script tells the browser that it wants to intercept all Click events and that it wants the myClickHandler function to handle them. Within this function, the handleEvent() method of the select box has been specified to handle the click.

When the user clicks anywhere on the page, the onClick event handler in the <select> tag calls a function to change the selection in a select box. The change increments through the four options in the box.

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