onbeforecut event

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

Fires on the source object before the selection is deleted from the document.

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

There are no standards that apply here.

Creating custom code for cutting requires several steps:

Set event.returnValue=false in the onbeforecut event to enable the Cut shortcut menu item.
Specify a data format in which to transfer the selection through the setData method of the clipboardData object.
Invoke the setData method in the oncut event.

None.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

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