22569 2013-07-03 23:53:52 +0000 MouseEvent should have DOMString pseudoElement property like TransitionEvent 2015-10-06 22:49:08 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - UI Events unspecified PC All RESOLVED MOVED P2 normal --- 1 esprehn garykac bugs falken mike public-webapps www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 90304 0 esprehn 2013-07-03 23:53:52 +0000 Just like with TransitionEvent we should support pseudoElement on MouseEvent so when you click a ::before or ::after or ::backdrop the click event you get back tells you which pseudo element was clicked. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/ This is important for <dialog> since it's quite common to want to dismiss the dialog when the user clicks the ::backdrop but right now you can't know that without getting the bounding client rects of the <dialog> and then looking to see if the hit was inside there. 90344 1 bugs 2013-07-04 09:02:57 +0000 Sounds like a bug in <dialog> design if it is expected that event handling explicitly needs to deal with pseudoElements all the time. 90347 2 falken 2013-07-04 12:29:31 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Sounds like a bug in <dialog> design if it is expected that event handling > explicitly needs to deal with pseudoElements all the time. If it helps, this is just for modal <dialog> which has a ::backdrop for optionally graying out the screen underneath it. It makes sense to me that you can handle events on ::backdrop, so you can dismiss the dialog or make it bounce for attention. But maybe there is a better design. 90637 3 esprehn 2013-07-11 17:31:33 +0000 It seems totally reasonable to want to know if someone clicked the element or the ::before or ::after. Right now if I position the ::before absolutely somewhere else on the page I can't easily tell (without triggering an unnecessary layout by calling getBoundingClientRects()) if the click was in the ::before or inside element itself. 90639 4 travil 2013-07-11 18:14:40 +0000 This is a great suggestion. As it is a new feature request, I'm moving it to the node for future DOM 3 Events features: UI Events. 123550 5 garykac 2015-10-06 22:49:08 +0000 Now tracking as: https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/15