Prototype – Event Handling


Prototype – Event Handling

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Event management is one of the biggest challenges to achieve cross-browser scripting. Every browser has different approaches to handle key strokes.

Prototype Framework handles all cross browser compatibility issues and keeps you free from all trouble related to event management.

Prototype Framework provides Event namespace, which is replete with methods, that all take the current event object as an argument, and happily produce the information you”re requesting, across all major browsers.

Event namespace also provides a standardized list of key codes you can use with keyboard-related events. The following constants are defined in the namespace −

S.No. Key Constant & Description
1.

KEY_BACKSPACE

Represent back space key.
2.

KEY_TAB

Represent tab key.
3.

KEY_RETURN

Represent return key.
4.

KEY_ESC

Represent esc key.
5.

KEY_LEFT

Represent left key.
6.

KEY_UP

Represent up key.
7.

KEY_RIGHT

Represent right key.
8.

KEY_DOWN

Represent down key.
9.

KEY_DELETE

Represent delete key.
10.

KEY_HOME

Represent home key.
11.

KEY_END

Represent end key.
12.

KEY_PAGEUP

Represent page up key.
13.

KEY_PAGEDOWN

Represent page down key.

How to Handle Events

Before we start, let us see an example of using an event method. This example shows how to capture the DOM element on which the event occurred.

Example

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Prototype examples</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src = "/javascript/prototype.js"></script>
      
      <script>
         // Register event ''click'' and associated call back.
         Event.observe(document, ''click'', respondToClick);
  
         // Callback function to handle the event.
         function respondToClick(event) {
            var element = event.element();
            alert("Tag Name : " + element.tagName );
         }
      </script>
   </head>

   <body>
      <p id = "note"> Click on any part to see the result.</p>
      <p id = "para">This is paragraph</p>
      <div id = "division">This is divsion.</div>
   </body>
</html>

Output