Re: Should mouse events be triggered on ancestors of disabled elements?

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:35:29 -0400
• To: public-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <56331DC1.8000305@mit.edu>

On 10/30/15 3:30 AM, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
> Does that mean that clicking on a disabled element avoids triggering
> mousedown, mouseup and click events on their ancestors?
> Chrome, Opera, IE and Edge *do* trigger event handlers set on ancestors,
> though not when they're set on the disabled elements themselves.

And what does it mean to "trigger on ancestors"?  Where is the event 
dispatched, with what target?  Which events need the weirdness?

-Boris

Received on Friday, 30 October 2015 07:36:00 UTC