HTML:HTML Scripting

The W3C HTML standard includes support for client-side scripting. It defines how locally executable scripts may be used in a web page. A particular client-side application, such as a web browser, may support several script languages. Script code may be executed as the document loads or at a later time.

Script code can be written directly in the HTML document inside:

SCRIPT elements

Intrinsic event attributes

Script macros

The SCRIPT element type

SCRIPT elements may occur zero or more times within the HEAD and BODY elements. Scripts within script elements are processed as the document loads. Intrinsic event attributes

Events occur for different elements of a web-page:

Documents (BODY and FRAMESET)

Forms

UI elements (Anchor, Control Element, Image)

Script code may be associated with an event and element by writing code in an HTML attribute. The name of the attribute must be that of a supported intrinsic event for the element (for example, "onLoad"). The script is executed whenever the event occurs for that element.

The HTML intrinsic event model consist of the following events:

Document

onLoad

onUnload

Form

onSubmit

onReset

Document and UI elements

Focus

onFocus

onBlur

UI elements

Mouse

Movement

onMouseOver

onMouseOut

onMouseMove

Button

onClick

onDblClick

onMouseDown

onMouseUp

Keyboard

onKeyPress

onKeyDown

onKeyUp

Other (TEXT/TEXTAREA)

Lost focus with modified content

onChange (also OPTION)

Text selection

OnSelect

Some browsers support additional event attributes (outside the standard), such as:

onResize

onMove

onScroll

onAbort

Script macros

Netscape Navigator supported a feature called "JavaScript entites" or "script macros" by which script code could be included in HTML attribute values, using a syntax similar to that of character entity references. For example, the code calls the JavaScript prompt() function to ask the user how wide the image should be.

The HTML 4.01 specification reserves a syntax for the "future support of script macros" in HTML attributes, but they have not been incorporated into later standards and are not supported by most current browsers.

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