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Simple Event Handling and Processing

 

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<title>Simple Event Handling and Processing</title>

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/*margin and padding on body element
  can introduce errors in determining
  element position and are not recommended;
  we turn them off as a foundation for YUI
  CSS treatments. */
body {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}
</style>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/fonts/fonts-min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>

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<body class=" yui-skin-sam">


<h1>Simple Event Handling and Processing</h1>

<div class="exampleIntro">
  <p>Clicking in the blue box will pop up a "Hello World!" alert window.  Clicking on the first link will take you to the YUI website; clicking on the second link, which has the same <code>href</code> attribute, will pop up an alert instead and not navigate to a new page.</p>

<p>Event Utility is used here to do two things:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Attach the <code>click</code> event handler to the blue box;</li>
  <li>Attach an event handler to the second <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> element that uses <code>YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault()</code> to prevent the link, when clicked, from navigating to a new page. </li>
</ol>      
</div>

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<script>

(function() {
  
//A function that pops up a "Hello World" alert:
var helloWorld = function(e) {
  YAHOO.log("helloWorld function firing.", "info", "example");
  alert("Hello World!");
}

//subscribe the helloWorld function as an event
//handler for the click event on the container
//div:
YAHOO.util.Event.addListener("container", "click", helloWorld);

//A function that pops up an alert and
//prevents the default behavior of the event
//for which it is a handler:
var interceptLink = function(e) {
  YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault(e);
  YAHOO.log("You clicked on the second YUI link.", "info", "example");
  alert("You clicked on the second YUI link.");
}

//subscribe our interceptLink function
//as a click handler for the second anchor
//element:
YAHOO.util.Event.addListener("secondA", "click", interceptLink);

//log message to indicate that the example is ready:
YAHOO.log("When you begin interacting with the example at left, you'll see log messages appear here.", "info", "example");

})();
</script>

<style>
#container {background-color:#00CCFF; border:1px dotted black; padding:1em; cursor:pointer;}
</style>
<div id="container">
<p>Click for Hello World alert.</p>
</div>
  <p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui" id="firstA">The YUI Library. (Link navigates away from page.)</a></p>
  <p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui" id="secondA">The YUI Library. (Link's default behavior is suppressed.)</a></p>
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