What are HTML 5 Standard Events?


When a user visits your website, they do things like click on text and images and given links, hover over things etc. These are examples of what JavaScript calls events.

We can write our event handlers in JavaScript or VBScript and you can specify these event handlers as a value of event tag attribute. The HTML5 specification defines various event attributes as listed below −

Attribute
Value
Description
Offline
script
Triggers when the document goes offline
Onabort
script
Triggers on an abort event
onafterprint
script
Triggers after the document is printed
onbeforeonload
script
Triggers before the document loads
onbeforeprint
script
Triggers before the document is printed
Onblur
script
Triggers when the window loses focus
Oncanplay
script
Triggers when media can start play but might to stop for buffering
oncanplaythrough
script
Triggers when media can be played to the end, without stopping for buffering
Onchange
script
Triggers when an element changes
Onclick
script
Triggers on a mouse click
oncontextmenu
script
Triggers when a context menu is triggered
Ondblclick
script
Triggers on a mouse double-click
Ondrag
script
Triggers when an element is dragged
ondragend
script
Triggers at the end of a drag operation
ondragenter
script
Triggers when an element has been dragged to a valid drop target
ondragleave
script
Triggers when an element leaves a valid drop target
ondragover
script
Triggers when an element is being dragged overa valid drop target
ondragstart
script
Triggers at the start of a drag operation
ondrop
script
Triggers when dragged element is being dropped
ondurationchange
script
Triggers when the length of the media is changed
onemptied
script
Triggers when a media resource element suddenly becomes empty.
onended
script
Triggers when media has reached the end
onerror
script
Triggers when an error occur
onfocus
script
Triggers when the window gets focus
onformchange
script
Triggers when a form changes
onforminput
script
Triggers when a form gets user input
onhaschange
script
Triggers when the document has changed
oninput
script
Triggers when an element gets user input
oninvalid
script
Triggers when an element is invalid
onkeydown
script
Triggers when a key is pressed
onkeypress
script
Triggers when a key is pressed and released
onkeyup
script
Triggers when a key is released
onload
script
Triggers when the document loads
onloadeddata
script
Triggers when media data is loaded
onloadedmetadata
script
Triggers when the duration and other media data of a media element is loaded
onloadstart
script
Triggers when the browser starts to load the media data
onmessage
script
Triggers when the message is triggered
onmousedown
script
Triggers when a mouse button is pressed
onmousemove
script
Triggers when the mouse pointer moves
onmouseout
script
Triggers when the mouse pointer moves out of an element
onmouseover
script
Triggers when the mouse pointer moves over an element
onmouseup
script
Triggers when a mouse button is released
onmousewheel
script
Triggers when the mouse wheel is being rotated
onoffline
script
Triggers when the document goes offline
onoine
script
Triggers when the document comes online
ononline
script
Triggers when the document comes online
onpagehide
script
Triggers when the window is hidden
onpageshow
script
Triggers when the window becomes visible
onpause
script
Triggers when media data is paused
onplay
script
Triggers when media data is going to start playing
onplaying
script
Triggers when media data has started playing
onpopstate
script
Triggers when the window's history changes
onprogress
script
Triggers when the browser is fetching the media data
onratechange
script
Triggers when the media data's playing rate has changed
onreadystatechange
script
Triggers when the ready-state changes
onredo
script
Triggers when the document performs a redo
onresize
script
Triggers when the window is resized
onscroll
script
Triggers when an element's scrollbar is being scrolled
onseeked
script
Triggers, when a media element's seeking attribute, is no longer true, and the seeking has ended
onseeking
script
Triggers, when a media element's seeking attribute, is true, and the seeking has begun
onselect
script
Triggers when an element is selected
onstalled
script
Triggers when there is an error in fetching media data
onstorage
script
Triggers when a document loads
onsubmit
script
Triggers when a form is submitted
onsuspend
script
Triggers when the browser has been fetching media data but stopped before the entire media file was fetched
ontimeupdate
script
Triggers when media changes its playing position
onundo
script
Triggers, when a document performs an, undo
onunload
script
Triggers when the user leaves the document
onvolumechange
script
Triggers when media changes the volume, also when volume is set to "mute"
onwaiting
script
Triggers when media has stopped playing but is expected to resume










Updated on: 16-Jun-2020

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