onmousedown event

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

Fires when the user clicks the object with either mouse button.

HTML Attribute	<element onmousedown = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onmousedown = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onmousedown", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("mousedown", handler, useCapture)

Use the button property to determine which mouse button is clicked.

Initiates actions associated with the event and with the object being clicked.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

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