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Bug 16876 - The Section "Global attributes", http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/global-attributes.html#global-attributes contains: "The following event handler content attributes may be specified on any HTML element:" and then a list of event handler attribute names. BUT
Summary: The Section "Global attributes", http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/global-attribu...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-04-27 19:57 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-04-30 06:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-27 19:57:16 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
The Section "Global attributes", 
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/global-attributes.html#global-attributes 
contains:

"The following event handler content attributes may be specified on any HTML
element:"


and then a list of event handler attribute names.


BUT, I cannot find any place in the RFC where these events are defined! Some
are clear (onclick), but others are ambiguous or mysterious (what causes an
onabort or oncancel event?)

It would be nice / useful to have a place (maybe in the doc, maybe a link)
where all these events are briefly defined, in order to distinguish the more
esoteric / ambiguous events.

Thank you.


-Steve Comstock
steve@trainersfriend.com

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Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2012-04-30 06:18:09 UTC 
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16877