Re: Target of onkeyup/down/press events

On 05/12/2011 05:53 PM, Giuseppe Pascale wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 11:44:38 +0200, Olli Pettay
> <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/2011 11:38 AM, Giuseppe Pascale wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I was looking at DOM specifications and I'm a little bit confused about
>>> the following.
>>>
>>> Question: (according to the spec) can an HTMLDocument receive a
>>> keyup/down/press event?
>>>
>>> I say according to the spec, because this works in practice (tried in
>>> Opera,Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu)
>>>
>>> Anyway, if I look at the latest stable version of DOM 3 Events
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/
>>
>> That is old.
>> Use
>> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html
>> Although even the latest draft has only Element as the target for key
>> events.
>>
>> But anyway, do you have a testcase where events are targeted to
>> document in all those browsers?
>> (I think you're right, but I'd like to see what you were testing)
>>
> well I didn't try anything special, just something like this
Your test doesn't test event targeting.
Of course events propagate up to the document, but the question
is are there cases when key events can be dispatched to document
so that event.target == document.



>
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> function testEvent(){
> document.onkeyup=my_keyup;
> document.onkeydown=my_keydown;
> document.onkeypress=my_keypress;
> }
>
> function my_keyup(){
> alert('keyup');
> }
>
> function my_keydown(){
> alert('keydown');
> }
>
> function my_keypress(){
> alert('keypress');
> }
>
> </script>
> </head>
> <body onload="testEvent()">
> document.keyXXX event test
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Even though to be honest keyup event doesn't seem to be delivered (in
> Opera, Chrome and FF). I didn't do any extensive testing with different
> versions or OSes.
>
> /g

Received on Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:59:11 UTC