Cancelling and Redirecting Events in IE5.5+

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Cancelling and Redirecting Events in IE5.5+



/*
JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition
by Danny Goodman 

John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001
*/

<HTML onClick="revealEvent('HTML', event)">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Event Cancelling & Redirecting</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
// display alert with event object info
function revealEvent(elem, evt) {
    var msg = "Event (from " + evt.srcElement.tagName + " at "
    msg += event.clientX + "," + event.clientY + ") is now at the "
    msg += elem + " element."
    alert(msg)
}
function init() {
    document.onclick = docEvent
    document.body.onclick = docBodEvent
}

function docEvent() {
    revealEvent("document", event)
}
function docBodEvent() {
    revealEvent("BODY", event)
}
function buttonEvent(form) {
    revealEvent("BUTTON", event)
    // cancel if checked (IE4+)
    event.cancelBubble = form.bubbleCancelState.checked
    // redirect if checked (IE5.5+)
    if (form.redirect.checked) {
        document.body.fireEvent("onclick", event)
    }
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onLoad="init()">
<H1>Event Cancelling & Redirecting</H1>
<HR>
<FORM onClick="revealEvent('FORM', event)">
<P><BUTTON NAME="main1" onClick="buttonEvent(this.form)">
Button 'main1'
</BUTTON></P>
<P><INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="bubbleCancelState"
 onClick="event.cancelBubble=true">Cancel Bubbling at BUTTON<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="redirect" onClick="event.cancelBubble=true">
Redirect Event to BODY</P>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>