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January 11, 2001 Detecting the Mouse Button Tips: January 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The e object holds a lot of information about the Netscape 6 event. The button property, for example, reveals which mouse button was clicked during the event firing. Possible values are 1 for the left button, 2 for the middle button, and 3 for the right button. The following statement prints the button property value to the status window:
The status window is shown on the bottom left corner of Netscape 6 window. Notice that you have to pass the e object as a parameter to those functions which reference it. In the following example, we pass the e object as a parameter to colorItTan():
Get on Netscape 6 browser and play with this demo. Click the left button and then the right button. See the different values printed to the status window: 1 for the left, 2 for the middle button, and 3 for the right button.
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