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HTML - EVENTS REFERENCE
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When users visit your website, they do things like click various links, bring mouse over text and images etc. These
are examples of what we call events in JavaScript and VBScript terminologies.
We can write our event handlers using JavaScript or VBScript and can specify some actions to be taken against
these events. Though these are the events but they will be specified as attributes for the HTML tags.
The HTML 4.01 specification had defined 19 events but later HTML-5 has added many other events which we
have listed down here −
Window Events Attributes
Following events have been introduced in older versions of HTML but all the tags marked with
are part of HTML-5.
Events HTML-5 Description
onafterprint Triggers after a document is printed
onbeforeprint Triggers before a document is printed
onbeforeonload Triggers before a document loads
onerror Triggers when an error occurs
onhaschange Triggers when a document has changed
onload Triggers when a document loads
onmessage Triggers when a message is triggered
onoffline Triggers when a document goes offline
ononline Triggers when a document comes online
onpagehide Triggers when a window is hidden
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onpageshow Triggers when a window becomes visible
onpopstate Triggers when a window's history changes
onredo Triggers when a document performs a redo
onresize Triggers when a window is resized
onstorage Triggers when a document loads
onundo Triggers when a document performs an undo
onunload Triggers when a user leaves the document
Form Events
Following tags have been introduced in older versions of HTML but all the tags marked with
are part of HTML-5.
Events HTML-5 Description
onblur Triggers when a window loses focus
onchange Triggers when an element changes
oncontextmenu Triggers when a context menu is triggered
onfocus Triggers when a window gets focus
onformchange Triggers when a form changes
onforminput Triggers when a form gets user input
oninput Triggers when an element gets user input
oninvalid Triggers when an element is invalid
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onreset Triggers when a form is reset
onselect Triggers when an element is selected
onsubmit Triggers when a form is submitted
Keyboard Events
Events HTML-5 Description
onkeydown Triggers when a key is pressed
onkeypress Triggers when a key is pressed and released
onkeyup Triggers when a key is released
Mouse Events
Following tags have been introduced in older versions of HTML but all the tags marked with
are part of HTML-5.
Events HTML-5 Description
onclick Triggers on a mouse click
ondblclick Triggers on a mouse double-click
ondrag Triggers when an element is dragged
ondragend Triggers at the end of a drag operation
ondragenter Triggers when an element has been dragged to a valid drop target
ondragleave Triggers when an element leaves a valid drop target
ondragover Triggers when an element is being dragged over a valid drop target
ondragstart Triggers at the start of a drag operation
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ondrop Triggers when a dragged element is being dropped
onmousedown Triggers when a mouse button is pressed
onmousemove Triggers when the mouse pointer moves
onmouseout Triggers when the mouse pointer moves out of an element
onmouseover Triggers when the mouse pointer moves over an element
onmouseup Triggers when a mouse button is released
onmousewheel Triggers when the mouse wheel is being rotated
onscroll Triggers when an element's scrollbar is being scrolled
Media Events
Following tags have been introduced in older versions of HTML but all the tags marked with
are part of HTML-5.
Events HTML-5 Description
onabort Triggers on an abort event
oncanplay Triggers when a media can start play, but might has to stop for buffering
Triggers when a media can be played to the end, without stopping for
oncanplaythrough
buffering
ondurationchange Triggers when the length of a media is changed
onemptied Triggers when a media resource element suddenly becomes empty.
onended Triggers when a media has reached the end
onerror Triggers when an error occurs
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onloadeddata Triggers when media data is loaded
Triggers when the duration and other media data of a media element is
onloadedmetadata
loaded
onloadstart Triggers when the browser starts loading the media data
onpause Triggers when media data is paused
onplay Triggers when media data is going to start playing
onplaying Triggers when media data has started playing
onprogress Triggers when the browser is fetching the media data
onratechange Triggers when the playing rate of media data has changed
onreadystatechange Triggers when the ready-state changes
Triggers when the seeking attribute of a media element is no longer true,
onseeked
and the seeking has ended
Triggers when the seeking attribute of a media element is true, and the
onseeking
seeking has begun
onstalled Triggers when there is an error in fetching media data
Triggers when the browser has been fetching media data, but stopped
onsuspend
before the entire media file was fetched
ontimeupdate Triggers when media changes its playing position
Triggers when a media changes the volume, also when volume is set to
onvolumechange
"mute"
onwaiting Triggers when media has stopped playing, but is expected to resume
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