Abakada HTML Demo: onmousedown Event Example


The onmousedown event occurs when the user clicks an object with either mouse button. This example uses a handler for the event that simply retrieves the tagName of the object on which the event has fired.

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Because the handler is set at the BODY level, event bubbling captures the onmousedown events for all elements.


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