Topic awaiting preservation: the e (Page 1 of 1)

hi all,
I am still trying to understand this freaking e.
it kinda appears everywhere
in functions:
mousemover(e)
and in some things I cant name:
(like) e.pageX or something liek that.

Is that precise enough? :-)
btw, is there a document.body.scrollTop for NS,NS4 and NS6?
k10

the "e" can really be any variable you want, it's a Netscape thing for capturing events. When you do so it names the event in this case it's "e"



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Its just like any other argument...

function myfunc(astring)
{
document.write("the string passed to this function is " + astring);
}

only, in an event handler, instead of a string, it's an object that contains information about the event that's happening (frequently called the "event" object). IE also provides similar information in an object that is always defined (Event), and not passed to the function - you can get to it just by typing "event" just like any other globally defined variable. IE's way has been standardized by the W3C, so it is also used by the standards-compliant browsers such as Mozilla.

As far as events are concerned, you should definitively read excellent The DOM Event Model tutorial from BrainJar...

window.pageYOffset is Netscape's equivalent for document.body.scrollTop ...