[thelist] Looking up references for HTML
David Dorward
evolt at david.us-lot.org
Tue Jul 6 03:27:34 CDT 2004
On 6 Jul 2004, at 09:14, Burhan Khalid wrote:
> Greetings Everyone :
>
> I wanted to find out if there was a onclick event defined for the
> body element. The first place I looked was w3.org, where I looked at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd and didn't
> find onclick in the list of attributes for the body tag, so I thought
> that the onclick event isn't defined for body.
> My question is, where do I look at the w3.org to find this
> information ... and what is the definitive answer? Did I search in the
> wrong places?
DTDs are a little tricky to read ...
<!ELEMENT body %Flow;>
<!ATTLIST body
%attrs;
Leads to:
<!ENTITY % attrs "%coreattrs; %i18n; %events;">
Leads to:
<!ENTITY % events
"onclick %Script; #IMPLIED
Its generally easier to go to the version designed for human
consumption (rather then the DTD which is for machines).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
> Also -- if there is a javascript function defined for the onclick
> event on the body tag, and another function defined for the onclick
> event for any other tag, do the two functions get called in order?
> Body->onclick, then Tag->onclick?
This is a complicated one...
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_order.html
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David Dorward
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