The dispatchEvent Method

The dispatchEvent Method

The dispatchEvent method is a W3C method that enables you to send an event to an object. This is the W3C way of triggering events, as opposed to methods such as the click method. You can see the support for this method in Table 6.17.

Table 6.17. The dispatchEvent Method

Method	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
dispatchEvent( eventObject )				x
	Returns: Boolean

To use this method, you use the document method createEvent to create an event object, and then pass the event object to the object in which you want to trigger the event. This method returns a value of true if the event was dispatched successfully, false otherwise .