Word.ContentControlEnteredEventArgs interface

Package:

word

Provides information about the content control that raised the contentControlEntered event.

Remarks

API set: WordApi 1.5

Used by

• Word.ContentControl: onEntered

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/word/10-content-controls/content-control-onentered-event.yaml

await Word.run(async (context) => {
  const contentControls: Word.ContentControlCollection = context.document.contentControls;
  contentControls.load("items");
  await context.sync();

  // Register the onEntered event handler on each content control.
  if (contentControls.items.length === 0) {
    console.log("There aren't any content controls in this document so can't register event handlers.");
  } else {
    for (let i = 0; i < contentControls.items.length; i++) {
      eventContexts[i] = contentControls.items[i].onEntered.add(contentControlEntered);
      contentControls.items[i].track();
    }

    await context.sync();

    console.log("Added event handlers for when the cursor is placed in content controls.");
  }
});

...

async function contentControlEntered(event: Word.ContentControlEnteredEventArgs) {
  await Word.run(async (context) => {
    console.log(`${event.eventType} event detected. ID of content control that was entered: ${event.ids[0]}`);
  });
}

Properties

eventType	Specifies the event type. See Word.EventType for details.
ids	Gets the content control IDs.
source	Specifies the source of the event. It can be local or remote (through coauthoring).

Property Details

eventType

Specifies the event type. See Word.EventType for details.

eventType: Word.EventType | "ContentControlDeleted" | "ContentControlSelectionChanged" | "ContentControlDataChanged" | "ContentControlAdded" | "CommentDeleted" | "CommentSelected" | "CommentDeselected" | "CommentChanged" | "CommentAdded" | "ContentControlEntered" | "ContentControlExited" | "ParagraphAdded" | "ParagraphChanged" | "ParagraphDeleted" | "AnnotationClicked" | "AnnotationHovered" | "AnnotationInserted" | "AnnotationRemoved" | "AnnotationPopupAction";

Property Value

Word.EventType | "ContentControlDeleted" | "ContentControlSelectionChanged" | "ContentControlDataChanged" | "ContentControlAdded" | "CommentDeleted" | "CommentSelected" | "CommentDeselected" | "CommentChanged" | "CommentAdded" | "ContentControlEntered" | "ContentControlExited" | "ParagraphAdded" | "ParagraphChanged" | "ParagraphDeleted" | "AnnotationClicked" | "AnnotationHovered" | "AnnotationInserted" | "AnnotationRemoved" | "AnnotationPopupAction"

Remarks

API set: WordApi 1.5

ids

Gets the content control IDs.

ids: number[];

Property Value

number[]

Remarks

API set: WordApi 1.5

source

Specifies the source of the event. It can be local or remote (through coauthoring).

source: Word.EventSource | "Local" | "Remote";

Property Value

Word.EventSource | "Local" | "Remote"

Remarks

API set: WordApi 1.5