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Availability

DOM Level 2 Events

Synopsis

boolean dispatchEvent(Event evt)
throws EventException;

Arguments

evt

The Event object to be dispatched.

Returns

false if the preventDefault( )
method of evt was called at any time
during the propagation of the event, or true
otherwise.

Throws

This method throws an EventException with its
code property set to
EventException.UNSPECIFIED_EVENT_TYPE_ERR if the
Event object evt was not initialized or if
its type property was null or
the empty string.

Description

This method dispatches a synthetic event created with
Document.createEvent( ) and initialized with the
initialization method defined by the Event interface or one of its
subinterfaces. The node on which this method is called becomes the
target of the event, but the event first propagates down the document
tree during the capturing phase, and then, if the
bubbles property of the event is
true, it bubbles up the document tree after being
handled at the event target itself.

See Also

Document.createEvent( ), Event.initEvent( ),
MouseEvent.initMouseEvent( )