Display information about any object on click

[gbrian]

Is it possible to create a script that would return the information about an object that was clicked?

IE - an alert that could return information such as ("Mouse Down on DIV NAME="test" OR "Mouse Up on IMG ALT="test image") without implementing events on each object?

Just looking for a high level view on how I could do this, or if it is possible - thanks all.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You would at very least have to code each event you wanted to trap. You can't, AFAIK, trap *all* events no matter what they are.

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[gbrian]

Well, specifically, I just want to trap each MouseUp and MouseDown event, for all objects that exist on the page.

This is possible? Where would you start, captureEvents?

Ultimately, I would want to be able to record when and where a user clicks/releases the mouse, the timestamps, and whether the object had a URL associated with it.

Thanks again

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I wouldn't use captureEvents... that's old hat. The W3C recommends using addEventListener, which you can read more about here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html

and here:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:element.addEventListener

Hope this helps,
Dan



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