Dave wrote:
Hi,
With this code, I thought that any 'click' with the mouse would be captured
on the window level and nothing would happen, but a click on the button
triggers nevertheless the function hit(). Why is it not directed to the
function IgnoreEvents instead of the function hit?
...
<script>
window.top.captureEvents(Event.CLICK)
window.top.onclick=IgnoreEvents
function IgnoreEvents(e)
{ return false }
function hit()
{ alert('hit') }
</script>
INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="hit()"
...
Thanks for your explanation
captureEvents is part of the NN4 event model, and with NN4 I am sure you
can click the button as much as you want, it doesn't fire its onclick
handler:
<html>
<head>
<title>NN4 captureEvents</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.layers) {
window.captureEvents(Event.CLICK);
window.onclick = function (evt) {
return false;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="button" value="button"
onclick="alert(event.type);">
</form>
</body>
</html>
I guess you are trying with Netscape 6/7 or Mozilla which unfortunately
has window.captureEvents as a function in its browser object model but
this doesn't do anything.
If you want to capture events with Netscape 6/7 or Mozilla use
window.addEventListener('eventname', eventHandler, true)
as in
<html>
<head>
<title>NN4 captureEvents</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.layers) {
window.captureEvents(Event.CLICK);
window.onclick = function (evt) {
return false;
}
}
else if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener('click',
function (evt) {
if (evt.stopPropagation) {
evt.stopPropagation();
return false;
}
},
true
);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="button" value="button"
onclick="alert(event.type);">
</form>
</body>
</html>
--
Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ 
