Working with Events
One important aspect of JavaScript is interacting with the user, and you do that through events. As discussed earlier, when the user takes some action, such as clicking a button, dragging the mouse, or typing keys, an event happens. In the next chapter, we'll handle not only ordinary events such as button clicks, but also the events that occur as an XML document is loaded into the browser and parsed.
Events are handled tag by tag in browsers, and you use special event attributes to connect code, such as JavaScript code, to an event. For example, when the user presses the mouse button in a Web page, the code connected to the <BODY> element with that element's onMouseDown attribute is executed. You can see the complete list ...
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