onselectstart event

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

Fires when the object is being selected.

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

There are no standards that apply here.

The object at the beginning of the selection fires the event.

Moves the selection to an object and highlights that selection.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

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