Get the event target

Description

The following code listens to the mouse over and mouse out event. Inside the event handler it changes the event target text and color.

Example


<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p {<!--from   ww  w.j  av  a 2  s .  c  om-->
  background: gray;
  color: white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <p>This is a test. 
  </p>
  <p id="block2">This is a test. 
  </p>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    var pElems = document.getElementsByTagName("p");
    for ( var i = 0; i < pElems.length; i++) {
      pElems[i].onmouseover = handleMouseEvent;
      pElems[i].onmouseout = handleMouseEvent;
    }
    function handleMouseEvent(e) {
      if (e.type == "mouseover") {
          e.target.innerHTML += "mouseover";
        e.target.style.background = 'white';
        e.target.style.color = 'black';
      } else {
        e.target.style.removeProperty('color');
        e.target.style.removeProperty('background');
      }
    }
  </script>
</body>
</html>

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