onbeforedeactivate event

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01/24/2012

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Fires immediately before the activeElement is changed from the current object to another object in the parent document.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element onbeforedeactivate = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onbeforedeactivate = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onbeforedeactivate", handler)

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]
Type: IHTMLEventObj

Remarks

Note When focus leaves the document, the active element does not change and the onbeforedeactivate event will not fire.

Each document may have up to one active element. Set the active element with the setActive or focus methods. Using the setActive method has no effect on document focus. Using the focus method on an individual element causes the element to gain focus and become the active element.

Using the focus method on a document that does not have the focus moves the document to the front of the display. Additionally, the document's active element gains focus.

For a given display, only one element has focus at any given time. Striking a key directly affects only the element with focus. Events fired by that keystroke may be scripted to affect other documents and child elements.

With Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later, focus on a document, and the active element of a document can be managed separately. Use the onbeforedeactivate event to cancel moving activation from the current element.

Change activation from the event.srcElement to the event.toElement.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Click an element, other than the active element of the document.
Use the keyboard to move focus from the active element to another element.
Invoke the setActive method on an element, when the element is not the active element.
Invoke the focus method on an element, when the element is not the active element.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces: