MouseEvent Properties

The MouseEvent type exposes the following members.

Properties
  NameDescription
Public propertyAltKey
Refer to the altKey attribute.
Public propertyBubbles
Used to indicate whether or not an event is a bubbling event. If the event can bubble the value is true, else the value is false.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyButton
During mouse events caused by the depression or release of a mouse button, button MUST be used to indicate which pointer device button changed state.
Public propertyButtons
During any mouse events, buttons MUST be used to indicate which combination of mouse buttons are currently being pressed, expressed as a bitmask.
Public propertyCancelable
Used to indicate whether or not an event can have its default action prevented. If the default action can be prevented the value is true, else the value is false.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyClientX
The horizontal coordinate at which the event occurred relative to the viewport associated with the event.
Public propertyClientY
The vertical coordinate at which the event occurred relative to the viewport associated with the event.
Public propertyCtrlKey
Refer to the ctrlKey attribute.
Public propertyCurrentTarget
Used to indicate the IEventTarget whose IEventListeners are currently being processed. This is particularly useful during capturing and bubbling.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyDefaultPrevented
Returns true if preventDefault() was invoked while the cancelable attribute value is true, and false otherwise.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyDetail
Specifies some detail information about the Event, depending on the type of event.
(Inherited from UIEvent.)
Public propertyEventPhase
Used to indicate which phase of event flow is currently being evaluated.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyIsTrusted
The isTrusted attribute must return the value it was initialized to. When an event is created the attribute must be initialized to false.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyMetaKey
Refer to the metaKey attribute.
Public propertyRelatedTarget
Used to identify a secondary EventTarget related to a UI event, depending on the type of event.
Public propertyScreenX
The horizontal coordinate at which the event occurred relative to the origin of the screen coordinate system.
Public propertyScreenY
The vertical coordinate at which the event occurred relative to the origin of the screen coordinate system.
Public propertyShiftKey
Refer to the shiftKey attribute.
Public propertyTarget
Used to indicate the IEventTarget to which the event was originally dispatched.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyTimeStamp
Used to specify the time (in milliseconds relative to the epoch) at which the event was created. Due to the fact that some systems may not provide this information the value of timeStamp may be not available for all events. When not available, a value of 0 will be returned. Examples of epoch time are the time of the system start or 0:0:0 UTC 1st January 1970.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyType
The name of the event (case-insensitive). The name must be an XML name.
(Inherited from Event.)
Public propertyView
The view attribute identifies the Window from which the event was generated. The un-initialized value of this attribute MUST be null.
(Inherited from UIEvent.)
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