Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 23 June 1997

Foil 55 Event Handlers in JavaScript - I

From JavaScript Tutorial for Certificate Course UC Web applications Certificate -- Summer 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo
Event Handlers for Foil 55
There are four major types of events and event handlers:
  • Form-related events
  • Hyperlinks
  • Loading and unloading a window
  • Images and image maps
JavaScript introduces new event-handling attributes inside tags that respond to mouse events or keyboard input (in text fields, e.g.)
One can specify event handlers in two ways, described on the following page

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