event Properties   DHTML Events

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Retrieves the object that fired the event.

HTML	N/A
Script	[ oObject = ] event.srcElement

oObject

Object that fired the event.

The property is read-only with no default value.

The following example retrieves the parent object ( if needed ), creates the text range, moves to the original object, and selects the first word in the object.

<script language="JScript">
function selectWord ( ) {
var oSource = window.event.srcElement ;
if ( !oSource.isTextEdit )
 oSource = window.event.srcElement.parentTextEdit;
 if ( oSource != null ) {
  var tRange = oSource.createTextRange ( );
  tRange.moveToElementText ( window.event.srcElement );
  tRange.collapse ( );
  tRange.expand ( "word" );
  tRange.select ( );
}
}
</script>

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