The setCapture Method

The setCapture Method

The setCapture method sets the mouse capture to the object belonging to the current document. You can see the support for this method in Table 6.50.

Table 6.50. The setCapture Method

Method	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
setCapture([ capture ])								x	x	x
	No return value

If you set the capture argument to true (the default), events originating within a container are captured by the container. Otherwise, events originating within a container are not captured by the container.