Listen to mouse over event on body in JavaScript

Description

The following code shows how to listen to mouse over event on body.

Example


<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
function tagInfo()<!--from   w  w  w . j  av a2s.  c om-->
{
var tag;
tag = window.event.srcElement.tagName;
document.writeln(tag);
}

</script>
</head>
<body onMouseover="tagInfo()">
<h1>Heading One</h1>
<P>Some text</p>
<h2>Another heading</h2>
<P>More text and some <b>bold</b> text</p>
<h3>Another heading</h3>
<P>More text and some <i>italics</i> text</p>
</body>
</html>

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The code above generates the following result.

Listen to mouse over event on body in JavaScript

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