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Tutorial 8

Working with the Event Model

Creating a Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart

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XPObjectives

• Learn different methods for applying event handlers

• Study event propagation in the Internet Explorer event model

• Understand event propagation in the DOM event model

• Create functions that resolve the differences between the event models

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XPObjectives

• Work with the properties of the event object under both models

• Identify the object that initiated an event• Determine the coordinates of a mouse event• Create objects that can be dragged and

dropped

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XPObjectives

• Work with cursor styles • Create functions that respond to double-click

events• Determine which mouse button a user clicked• Work with keyboard events, including

determining which key a user pressed• Understand how to work with modifier keys

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XPWorking with Events

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XPWorking with Events

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XPWorking with Events

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XPWorking with Events

• Event Handlers– One common way of responding to an event is by

adding an event handler attribute to an element’s tag

<element onevent = "script" ...> ... </element>

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XPWorking with Events

• Event Handlers

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XPWorking with Events

• Event Handlers as Object Properties– Another way to apply an event handler is to treat it

as an object property object.onevent = function– For example, to run the moveItem() function

whenever the mousemove event occurs within the item1 element, you could run the following JavaScript command:

document.getElementById("item1").onmousemove

=moveItem;

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XPWorking with Events

• Event Handlers as Object Properties– One of the main disadvantages of handling events

as object properties is the inability to include a function’s parameter values in a property

– In addition, you can assign only one function at a time to a particular object and event

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XPWorking with Events

• Event Handlers as Script Elements– Can also invoke event handlers as attributes of the

script element<script type="text/javascript" for="id" event="onevent">

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XPWorking with Events

• Using an Event Handler to Cancel an Action– Can cancel the default action for any event by

assigning a function to the event handler that returns the Boolean value false

document.links[0].onclick=disableLink;

function disableLink() {

return false;

}

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XPWorking with Events

• Assigning an Event Handler

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XPIntroducing the Internet Explorer Event Model

• The way that a browser works with events is called its event model

• Consider two event models in this tutorial: the Internet Explorer event model developed for the Internet Explorer browser, and the DOM event model developed by the W3C for DOM Level 2

• The Internet Explorer event model is supported by Internet Explorer version 5 and higher

• The DOM event model is supported by Netscape 6 and 7, Firefox, and other Mozilla browsers.

• A third event model was developed for Netscape 4 and Netscape 4.7

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XPIntroducing the Internet Explorer Event Model

• Event Bubbling– In the Internet Explorer

Event model, events are initiated at the bottom of the document tree and rise to the top of the object hierarchy in a process known as event bubbling

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XPIntroducing the Internet Explorer Event Model

• Canceling Event Bubbling– In some scripts you may want to prevent an event

from propagating up the document tree– To prevent event bubbling from occurring, run the

following command when the event reaches the level at which you want the propagation to stop

event.cancelBubble=true;– To turn event bubbling back on, run the command

event.cancelBubble = false;

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XPIntroducing the Internet Explorer Event Model

• Canceling Event Bubbling– To cancel an event at the current level as well as

all levels above the object, run the command

event.returnValue = false;

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XPIntroducing the Internet Explorer Event Model

• Attaching and Detaching Events– The Internet Explorer event model overcomes this

limitation with the attachEvent() method

object.attachEvent(onevent, function)– To detach one of these functions from the

mouseover event, you would use the detachEvent() method

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XPIntroducing the DOM Event Model

• In the DOM model, an event starts at the top and moves down the object hierarchy until it reaches the target of the event; at that point, the event bubbles back up the object hierarchy

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XPIntroducing the DOM Event Model

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XPIntroducing the DOM Event Model

• In the DOM model, an event is split into three phases– A capture phase as the event moves down the object

hierarchy– A target phase in which the event reaches the object from

which the event originated– A bubbling phase in which the event moves back up the

object hierarchy

• To run a function, you create an event listener that detects when a particular event has reached an object in the document

object.addEventListener(event, function, capture)

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XPIntroducing the DOM Event Model

• Can prevent an event from propagating through the object hierarchy using the method

evt.stopPropagation()• To cancel an event entirely, use the method

evt.preventDefault()

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XPCreating a Cross-Browser Event Model

• Since two event models exist, with different approaches and syntax, you need to determine which event model a user’s browser supports and then run commands appropriate for that model

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XPCreating a Cross-Browser Event Model

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XPWorking with Event Objects

• If the user has pressed a key on the keyboard, you may want to know which key was pressed

• This type of information is stored in an event object

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XPWorking with Event Objects

• The Internet Explorer Event Object– In the Internet Explorer event model, the event

object has the object reference windowObject.event– If you are dealing with events in the current

browser window, you can drop the windowObject reference

– One of the more important properties is srcElement– The srcElement property is akin to the “this”

keyword

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XPWorking with Event Objects

• The Internet Explorer Event Object

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XPWorking with Event Objects

• The DOM Event Object– In the DOM event model, the event object is

inserted as a parameter of whatever function responds to the event

– Give the event object any parameter name, but the standard practice is to name the parameter “e” or “evt”

– For the DOM event model, the object that initiated an event is returned using the target property

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XPWorking with Event Objects

• The DOM Event Object

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Function has to perform the following tasks– Identify the object that lies beneath the pointer– Determine the page coordinates of the mouse

pointer at the moment the user depresses the mouse button

– Calculate the difference between the coordinates of the mouse pointer and the coordinates of the selected object

– Assign functions to the object that run whenever the user moves the mouse pointer or releases the mouse button

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Determining the Event Source

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Determining the Event Coordinates

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Determining the Event Coordinates

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Calculating the Distance from the Pointer

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XPCreating the grabIt() Function

• Calculating the Distance from the Pointer

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XPCreating the moveIt() Function

• The moveIt() function needs to perform the following tasks– Determine the current location of the mouse

pointer– Maintain dragItem at a constant distance from the

mouse pointer

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XPCreating the moveIt() Function

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XPCreating the moveIt() Function

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XPCreating the dropIt() Function

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XPRedefining the Drag-and-Drop Feature

• Keeping Dragged Items on Top

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XPRedefining the Drag-and-Drop Feature

• Returning a Dragged Item to Its Starting Point

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XPRedefining the Drag-and-Drop Feature

• Returning a Dragged Item to Its Starting Point

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XPRedefining the Drag-and-Drop Feature

• Canceling the selectStart Event

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XPFormatting a Dragged Object

• Mouse pointers can be defined using an object’s style properties

object.style.cursor=cursorType;• Can also define the pointer style in a CSS

style declaration

cursor: cursorType

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XPFormatting a Dragged Object

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XPFormatting a Dragged Object

• Changing the Color

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XPWorking with the Double-Click Event

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XPWorking with the Double-Click Event

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XPWorking with the Mouse Button

• In the DOM event model, the button values are 0=left, 1=middle, 2=right

• In the Internet Explorer event model, these values are 0=left, 2=right, 4=middle

• For Netscape 6 the values are 1=left, 2=middle, 3=right• Right and middle mouse buttons usually have default

actions• May not wish to interfere with these default actions

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XPWorking with Keyboard Events

• Capturing a Keyboard Event– Three main keyboard events are available to work

with• keydown: The user has pressed a key down• keyup: The user has released a key• keypress: The user has pressed and released a key

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XPWorking with Keyboard Events

• Examining Key Codes

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XPWorking with Keyboard Events

• Creating the KeyDrag() function

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XPWorking with Keyboard Events

• Modifier Keys– Both event models use the following properties of the event

object to determine the state of the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keysaltKey;

ctrlKey;

shiftKey;

– Each of these properties returns a Boolean value indicating whether the modifier key is being pressed

– The DOM event model also supports the event object property metaKey;

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XPTips for Working with Events

• Create customized cross-browser functions that resolve the differences among the event models

• Position any objects that will be dragged and dropped using inline styles prior to running the drag-and-drop commands

• In a drag-and-drop application, provide users with additional visual feedback that an object is being moved, such as color changes and pointer changes

• Capture keyboard and mouse events to make your Web page more accessible to users with disabilities