Events

DOM Level 2 Events

Category	Type	Attribute	Description	Bubbles	Cancelable
Mouse	click	onclick	Fires when the pointing device button is clicked over an element. A click is defined as a mousedown and mouseup over the same screen location. The sequence of these events is: mousedown mouseup click	Yes	Yes
	dblclick	ondblclick	Fires when the pointing device button is double clicked over an element.	Yes	Yes
	mousedown	onmousedown	Fires when the pointing device button is pressed over an element.	Yes	Yes
	mouseup	onmouseup	Fires when the pointing device button is released over an element.	Yes	Yes
	mouseover	onmouseover	Fires when the pointing device button is moved onto an element.	Yes	Yes
	mousemove	onmousemove	Fires when the pointing device button is moved while it is over an element.	Yes	No
	mouseout	onmouseout	Fires when the pointing device button is moved away from an element.	Yes	Yes
Keyboard	keypress	onkeypress	Fires when a key on the keyboard is "clicked". A keypress is defined as a keydown and keyup on the same key. The sequence of these events is: keydown keyup keypress	Yes	Yes
	keydown	onkeydown	Fires when a key on the keyboard is pressed.	Yes	Yes
	keyup	onkeyup	Fires when a key on the keyboard is released.	Yes	Yes
HTML frame/object	load	onload	Fires when finishes loading all content within a document, including window, frame, object and image.	No	No
	unload	onunload	Fires when removes all content from a window or frame.	No	No
	abort	onabort	Fires when an object/image loading is stopped before completely loaded.	Yes	No
	error	onerror	Fires when an object/image/frame cannot be loaded properly.	Yes	No
	resize	onresize	Fires when a document view is resized.	Yes	No
	scroll	onscroll	Fires when a document view is scrolled.	Yes	No
HTML form	select	onselect	Fires when a user selects some text in a text field, including input and textarea.	Yes	No
	change	onchange	Fires when a control loses the input focus and its value has been modified since gaining focus, including input, select and textarea.	Yes	No
	submit	onsubmit	Fires when a form is submitted.	Yes	Yes
	reset	onreset	Fires when a form is reset.	Yes	No
	focus	onfocus	Fires when an element receives focus either via the pointing device or by tabbing navigation, including label, input, select, textarea, and button.	No	No
	blur	onblur	Fires when an element loses focus either via the pointing device or by tabbing navigation, including label, input, select, textarea, and button.	No	No
User interface	DOMFocusIn	ondomfocusin	Similar to HTML focus event, but can be applied to any focusable element.	Yes	No
	DOMFocusOut	ondomfocusout	Similar to HTML blur event, but can be applied to any focusable element.	Yes	No
	DOMActivate	ondomactivate	Similar to XUL command event. Fires when an element is activated, for instance, through a mouse click or a keypress.	Yes	Yes
Mutation	DOMSubtreeModified	onsubtreemodified	Fire when the subtree is modified.	Yes	No
	DOMNodeInserted	onnodeinserted	Fires when a node has been added as a child of another node.	Yes	No
	NodeInsertedIntoDocument	onnodeinsertedintodocument	Fires when a node is being inserted into a document.	No	No
	DOMAttrModified	onattrmodified	Fires when an attribute has been modified.	Yes	No
	DOMCharacterDataModified	oncharacterdatamodified	Fires when the character data has been modified.	Yes	No