"Bender" <te*******@stickfly.com> writes:
I am wanting to capture an onmousedown event without firing the body tags
onload event.
It never calls the body onload event. The onload event is triggered by
the page being completely loaded. It only happens once, and doesn't
wait for you to click.
Also, if anyone could explain why this happens that would be excellent. I
can't see how an onmousedown event could bubble up to an onload event.
Let me guess: Your example code is saved as the file "page.html"?
In that case, clicking on the a-element will execute the onmousedown event,
and then follow the link and reload the page. That will ofcourse trigger
the onload event on the new page.
To stop the click from following the link, make the onmousedown event
handler return false. That is, add "return false" at the end of the
onmousedown attribute value.
NOTE: If you put an alert() statement in the onmousedown event handler the
body onload event doesn't get fired.
That shouldn't change anything, except maybe make you move the mouse.
Try using the keyboard to get rid of the alert (press return or
escape), and see if it makes a difference.
<a href="./page.html" onmousedown="this.style.width = '25%';">test
mouse down</a>
This test should fail. You try to set the width of an inline element,
which should have no effect at all. The CSS width propert doesn't
apply to inline elements. It will probably work in IE Quirks mode,
but your DOCTYPE should put the browser into standards mode.
Btw, your HTML is not legal. The a-element is an inline element, and
cannot be directly inside the body tag. It needs a paragraph, or
something similar, around it.
/L
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