Event

Methods:

getElements, preventDefault, stopPropagation, toSource, toSpecifier

Objects:

Boolean, Date, EventPhases, Number, Object, String,

Hierarchy:

Class: Event

Subclasses: PrintEvent | IdleEvent | MutationEvent | DocumentEvent | ImportExportEvent

Property Listing

Property	Type	Access	Description
bubbles	Boolean	readonly	If true, the event supports the bubbling phase of propagation.
cancelable	Boolean	readonly	If true, the default behavior of the event on its target can be canceled.
currentTarget	Object	readonly	The current propagation target of the event.
defaultPrevented	Boolean	readonly	If true, the default behavior of the event on its target has been canceled.
eventPhase	EventPhases EventPhases.AT_TARGET EventPhases.BUBBLING_PHASE EventPhases.DONE EventPhases.NOT_DISPATCHING	readonly	The current propagation phase of the event.
eventType	String	readonly	The name of the event.
id	Number	readonly	The unique ID of the Event.
index	Number	readonly	The index of the Event within its containing object.
isValid	Boolean	readonly	Returns true if the object specifier resolves to valid objects.
parent	AlignDistributePreference AnchoredObjectDefault AnchoredObjectSetting AngleCombobox AngleEditbox AnimationBehavior AnimationSetting Application Article ArticleChild ArticleMember Asset AssignedStory Assignment AutoCorrectPreference AutoCorrectTable AutofitAppearancePreferences AutofitApplicationSettings AutofitAutoResize AutofitDocumentRelations AutofitDocumentSettings AutofitLimits AutofitLineAppearance AutofitMarkerAppearance AutofitPageItemRelations AutofitPageItemSettings AutofitRelation AutofitSourceRelations AutofitTargetRelations BackgroundTask BaselineFrameGridOption Behavior BevelAndEmbossSetting BlendingSetting Book BookContent Bookmark BorderPanel BuildingBlock Bullet Button ButtonPreference CaptionMetadataVariablePreference Cell CellStyle CellStyleGroup CellStyleMapping Change ChangeGlyphPreference ChangeGrepPreference ChangeObjectPreference ChangeTextPreference ChangeTransliteratePreference ChapterNumberPreference ChapterNumberVariablePreference CharStyleMapping Character CharacterStyle CharacterStyleGroup CheckBox CheckboxControl CjkGridPreference ClearFormBehavior ClipboardPreference ClippingPathSettings Color ColorGroup ColorGroupSwatch ColorSetting Column ComboBox CompositeFont CompositeFontEntry Condition ConditionSet ConditionalTextPreference ContentPlacerObject ContentTransparencySetting ContourOption CrossReference CrossReferenceFormat CrossReferenceSource CustomTextVariablePreference DTD DashedStrokeStyle DataMerge DataMergeField DataMergeImagePlaceholder DataMergeOption DataMergePreference DataMergeQrcodePlaceholder DataMergeTextPlaceholder DateVariablePreference Dialog DialogColumn DialogRow DictionaryPreference DirectionalFeatherSetting DisplayPerformancePreference DisplaySetting Document DocumentPreference DocumentPreset DottedStrokeStyle DropShadowSetting Dropdown EPS EPSExportPreference EPSImportPreference EPSText EPubExportPreference EPubExportPreviewAppPreference EPubFixedLayoutExportPreference EnablingGroup Endnote EndnoteOption EndnoteRange EndnoteTextFrame ExcelImportPreference ExportForWebPreference FeatherSetting FileNameVariablePreference FillTransparencySetting FindChangeBevelAndEmbossSetting FindChangeBlendingSetting FindChangeContentTransparencySetting FindChangeDirectionalFeatherSetting FindChangeDropShadowSetting FindChangeFeatherSetting FindChangeFillTransparencySetting FindChangeGlyphOption FindChangeGradientFeatherSetting FindChangeGrepOption FindChangeInnerGlowSetting FindChangeInnerShadowSetting FindChangeObjectOption FindChangeOuterGlowSetting FindChangeSatinSetting FindChangeStrokeTransparencySetting FindChangeTextOption FindChangeTransliterateOption FindChangeTransparencySetting FindGlyphPreference FindGrepPreference FindObjectPreference FindTextPreference FindTransliteratePreference FlattenerPreference FlattenerPreset Font FontLockingPreference Footnote FootnoteOption FormField FrameFittingOption GalleyPreference GeneralPreference GotoAnchorBehavior GotoFirstPageBehavior GotoLastPageBehavior GotoNextPageBehavior GotoNextStateBehavior GotoNextViewBehavior GotoPageBehavior GotoPreviousPageBehavior GotoPreviousStateBehavior GotoPreviousViewBehavior GotoStateBehavior GotoURLBehavior GpuPerformancePreference GrabberPreference Gradient GradientFeatherSetting GradientStop Graphic GraphicLayer GraphicLayerOption GraphicLine GridDataInformation GridPreference GridPrintingPreference Group Guide GuidePreference HTMLExportPreference HTMLFXLExportPreference HiddenText HtmlItem HttpLinkConnectionManagerObject Hyperlink HyperlinkExternalPageDestination HyperlinkPageDestination HyperlinkPageItemSource HyperlinkTextDestination HyperlinkTextSource HyperlinkURLDestination HyphenationException IDBasedObject IMEPreference IdleTask Image ImageIOPreference ImagePreference ImportedPage ImportedPageAttribute InCopyExportOption Index IndexOptions IndexSection IndexingSortOption Ink InnerGlowSetting InnerShadowSetting InsertionPoint IntegerCombobox IntegerEditbox InteractivePDFExportPreference JPEGExportPreference KinsokuTable Language LanguageWithVendors Layer LayoutAdjustmentPreference LayoutGridDataInformation LayoutWindow Library LibraryPanel Line Link LinkMetadata LinkedPageItemOption LinkedStoryOption LinkingPreference ListBox MarginPreference MasterSpread MatchCharacterStylePreference MatchParagraphStylePreference MeasurementCombobox MeasurementEditbox MediaItem Menu MenuAction MenuElement MenuItem MenuSeparator MetadataPreference MixedInk MixedInkGroup MojikumiTable MojikumiUiPreference MotionPreset Movie MovieBehavior MultiStateObject NamedGrid NavigationPoint NestedGrepStyle NestedStyle NonIDBasedObject Note NotePreference NumberingList NumberingRestartPolicy ObjectExportOption ObjectStyle ObjectStyleContentEffectsCategorySettings ObjectStyleExportTagMap ObjectStyleFillEffectsCategorySettings ObjectStyleGroup ObjectStyleObjectEffectsCategorySettings ObjectStyleStrokeEffectsCategorySettings OpacityGradientStop OpenFileBehavior OuterGlowSetting Oval PDF PDFAttribute PDFExportPreference PDFExportPreset PDFPlacePreference PICT PNGExportPreference Page PageItem PageItemDefault PageNumberVariablePreference PageReference PagesPanel Panel ParaStyleMapping Paragraph ParagraphDestination ParagraphStyle ParagraphStyleGroup PasteboardPreference Path PathPoint PercentCombobox PercentEditbox PlaceGun Polygon PolygonPreference Preference PreflightBookOption PreflightOption PreflightProcess PreflightProfile PreflightProfileRule PreflightRule PreflightRuleInstance PrintBookletOption PrintBookletPrintPreference PrintFormBehavior PrintPreference PrinterPreset PublishExportPreference RadioButton RadiobuttonControl RadiobuttonGroup RealCombobox RealEditbox Rectangle RootObject Row RuleDataObject SWFExportPreference SatinSetting ScriptArg ScriptMenuAction ScriptPreference Section ShowHideFieldsBehavior SignatureField SmartGuidePreference Snippet Sound SoundBehavior SpellPreference SplineItem Spread State StaticText Story StoryGridDataInformation StoryPreference StoryWindow StripedStrokeStyle StrokeFillProxySetting StrokeStyle StrokeTransparencySetting StyleExportTagMap Submenu SubmitFormBehavior Swatch TOCStyle TOCStyleEntry TabStop Table TableStyle TableStyleGroup TableStyleMapping TaggedPDFPreference TaggedTextExportPreference TaggedTextImportPreference Text TextBox TextColumn TextDefault TextEditbox TextEditingPreference TextExportPreference TextFrame TextFrameFootnoteOptionsObject TextFramePreference TextImportPreference TextPath TextPreference TextStyleRange TextVariable TextVariableInstance TextWrapPreference TimingGroup TimingList TimingSetting TimingTarget Tint ToolBox Topic TrackChangesPreference TransformAttributeOption TransformPreference TransformationMatrix TransparencyPreference TransparencySetting TrapPreset TypeContextualUiPreference TypefiAnchorPreferences TypefiApplicationSettings TypefiCounterFormatLanguagePreferences TypefiDocumentSettings TypefiElementAnchor TypefiElementDefinition TypefiElementInstance TypefiElementPageItem TypefiElementVariantDefinition TypefiFieldDefinition TypefiFilemanager TypefiFrameItem TypefiFramePreferences TypefiHyperlinkPreferences TypefiMarkerPreferences TypefiMasterSpreadSettings TypefiPageItemSettings TypefiPageSettings TypefiPaginationPreferences TypefiPreflight TypefiSectionDefinition TypefiSectionInstance TypefiSectionSettings TypefiStyleSettings TypefiTableSettings UIDBasedObject UserDictionary ValidationError ViewPreference ViewZoomBehavior WMF WatermarkPreference Widget Window Word WordRTFImportPreference XFLExportPreference XMLAttribute XMLComment XMLElement XMLExportMap XMLExportPreference XMLImportMap XMLImportPreference XMLInstruction XMLItem XMLPreference XMLRuleMatchData XMLRuleProcessor XMLTag XMLViewPreference XmlStory NestedLineStyle Object	readonly	The parent of the Event (a Object, UIDBasedObject, TypefiElementAnchor, TypefiElementInstance, TypefiSectionInstance, TypefiFieldDefinition, TypefiElementVariantDefinition, TypefiElementDefinition, TypefiSectionDefinition, CellStyleGroup, CellStyle, TableStyleGroup, AutofitRelation, Article, ConditionSet, HiddenText, Condition, MotionPreset, AssignedStory, Assignment, ObjectStyleGroup, ObjectStyle, NumberingList, Snippet, Dialog, ColorGroup, Swatch, Color, Tint, Gradient, MixedInkGroup, MixedInk, Behavior, SubmitFormBehavior, PrintFormBehavior, ClearFormBehavior, GotoPageBehavior, GotoAnchorBehavior, SoundBehavior, ViewZoomBehavior, GotoStateBehavior, GotoPreviousStateBehavior, GotoNextStateBehavior, OpenFileBehavior, AnimationBehavior, ShowHideFieldsBehavior, MovieBehavior, GotoURLBehavior, GotoPreviousViewBehavior, GotoNextViewBehavior, GotoPreviousPageBehavior, GotoNextPageBehavior, GotoLastPageBehavior, GotoFirstPageBehavior, PreflightProfileRule, PreflightRuleInstance, PreflightProfile, CrossReferenceFormat, HyperlinkURLDestination, HyperlinkExternalPageDestination, HyperlinkPageDestination, HyperlinkTextDestination, ParagraphDestination, HyperlinkTextSource, CrossReferenceSource, HyperlinkPageItemSource, Bookmark, Hyperlink, IndexSection, PageReference, CrossReference, Index, TOCStyle, FlattenerPreset, BookContent, MenuAction, ScriptMenuAction, NamedGrid, CompositeFontEntry, CompositeFont, CharacterStyleGroup, ParagraphStyleGroup, TextVariableInstance, Footnote, XMLRuleProcessor, XMLTag, Note, TableStyle, TextPath, Asset, Link, Section, MojikumiTable, KinsokuTable, Guide, LanguageWithVendors, Language, PageItem, HtmlItem, FormField, SignatureField, TextBox, RadioButton, ListBox, ComboBox, CheckBox, MultiStateObject, Button, MediaItem, Sound, Movie, EPSText, SplineItem, Polygon, GraphicLine, Rectangle, Oval, Graphic, ImportedPage, PICT, WMF, PDF, EPS, Image, Group, TextFrame, EndnoteTextFrame, EndnoteRange, Endnote, MasterSpread, TrapPreset, Ink, DocumentPreset, Page, Spread, Layer, CharacterStyle, ParagraphStyle, Story, XmlStory, IDBasedObject, ArticleChild, ArticleMember, DialogRow, DialogColumn, Widget, BorderPanel, MeasurementEditbox, MeasurementCombobox, RealCombobox, AngleEditbox, PercentEditbox, RealEditbox, PercentCombobox, AngleCombobox, EnablingGroup, IntegerCombobox, IntegerEditbox, RadiobuttonControl, RadiobuttonGroup, CheckboxControl, Dropdown, StaticText, TextEditbox, ColorGroupSwatch, BackgroundTask, State, RuleDataObject, XMLItem, DTD, XMLInstruction, XMLComment, XMLElement, Table, Cell, IdleTask, StrokeStyle, StripedStrokeStyle, DottedStrokeStyle, DashedStrokeStyle, GraphicLayer, NonIDBasedObject, TableStyleMapping, CharStyleMapping, CellStyleMapping, ParaStyleMapping, TimingTarget, TimingGroup, TimingList, OpacityGradientStop, ObjectStyleExportTagMap, DataMergeQrcodePlaceholder, DataMergeField, DataMergeImagePlaceholder, DataMergeTextPlaceholder, Panel, LibraryPanel, PagesPanel, Window, StoryWindow, LayoutWindow, NavigationPoint, PreflightProcess, PreflightRule, BuildingBlock, DisplaySetting, IndexingSortOption, Topic, TOCStyleEntry, MenuElement, MenuSeparator, MenuItem, Submenu, Menu, StyleExportTagMap, TextVariable, XMLRuleMatchData, ValidationError, XMLExportMap, XMLImportMap, XMLAttribute, PrinterPreset, Row, Column, Change, HttpLinkConnectionManagerObject, RootObject, Document, Application, Book, Library, Preference, TypefiFilemanager, TypefiPreflight, TypefiPaginationPreferences, TypefiCounterFormatLanguagePreferences, TypefiMarkerPreferences, TypefiFramePreferences, TypefiAnchorPreferences, TypefiHyperlinkPreferences, TypefiFrameItem, TypefiElementPageItem, TypefiMasterSpreadSettings, TypefiStyleSettings, TypefiTableSettings, TypefiPageSettings, TypefiSectionSettings, TypefiPageItemSettings, TypefiDocumentSettings, TypefiApplicationSettings, AutofitDocumentRelations, AutofitMarkerAppearance, AutofitLineAppearance, AutofitSourceRelations, AutofitTargetRelations, AutofitPageItemRelations, AutofitAutoResize, AutofitLimits, AutofitAppearancePreferences, AutofitPageItemSettings, AutofitDocumentSettings, AutofitApplicationSettings, ContentPlacerObject, LinkedPageItemOption, LinkedStoryOption, PublishExportPreference, HTMLFXLExportPreference, EPubExportPreviewAppPreference, EPubFixedLayoutExportPreference, HTMLExportPreference, EPubExportPreference, ConditionalTextPreference, TimingSetting, AnimationSetting, XFLExportPreference, SWFExportPreference, TransformAttributeOption, AlignDistributePreference, TypeContextualUiPreference, GrabberPreference, ObjectStyleContentEffectsCategorySettings, ObjectStyleFillEffectsCategorySettings, ObjectStyleStrokeEffectsCategorySettings, ObjectStyleObjectEffectsCategorySettings, ChapterNumberPreference, NumberingRestartPolicy, Bullet, DataMerge, DataMergeOption, DataMergePreference, JPEGExportPreference, TrackChangesPreference, NotePreference, TransformPreference, ClipboardPreference, GeneralPreference, WatermarkPreference, ButtonPreference, PNGExportPreference, PreflightBookOption, PreflightOption, XMLViewPreference, GpuPerformancePreference, DisplayPerformancePreference, IndexOptions, LinkMetadata, MetadataPreference, ExcelImportPreference, TaggedTextImportPreference, TaggedTextExportPreference, WordRTFImportPreference, TextExportPreference, TextImportPreference, FindChangeContentTransparencySetting, FindChangeFillTransparencySetting, FindChangeStrokeTransparencySetting, FindChangeTransparencySetting, GradientFeatherSetting, FindChangeGradientFeatherSetting, DirectionalFeatherSetting, FindChangeDirectionalFeatherSetting, ContentTransparencySetting, SatinSetting, FindChangeSatinSetting, BevelAndEmbossSetting, FindChangeBevelAndEmbossSetting, InnerGlowSetting, FindChangeInnerGlowSetting, OuterGlowSetting, FindChangeOuterGlowSetting, InnerShadowSetting, FindChangeInnerShadowSetting, FeatherSetting, FindChangeFeatherSetting, DropShadowSetting, FindChangeDropShadowSetting, BlendingSetting, FindChangeBlendingSetting, FillTransparencySetting, StrokeTransparencySetting, TransparencySetting, TransparencyPreference, FlattenerPreference, GalleyPreference, GridPrintingPreference, CjkGridPreference, StoryGridDataInformation, LayoutGridDataInformation, GridDataInformation, CaptionMetadataVariablePreference, CustomTextVariablePreference, MatchParagraphStylePreference, MatchCharacterStylePreference, FileNameVariablePreference, DateVariablePreference, ChapterNumberVariablePreference, PageNumberVariablePreference, FootnoteOption, BaselineFrameGridOption, AnchoredObjectSetting, AnchoredObjectDefault, ExportForWebPreference, XMLPreference, XMLExportPreference, XMLImportPreference, InCopyExportOption, LinkingPreference, ChangeTransliteratePreference, ChangeObjectPreference, ChangeGlyphPreference, ChangeGrepPreference, ChangeTextPreference, FindTransliteratePreference, FindObjectPreference, FindGlyphPreference, FindGrepPreference, FindTextPreference, FindChangeTransliterateOption, FindChangeObjectOption, FindChangeGlyphOption, FindChangeGrepOption, FindChangeTextOption, ColorSetting, ScriptArg, ScriptPreference, PlaceGun, LayoutAdjustmentPreference, StrokeFillProxySetting, ImportedPageAttribute, EPSImportPreference, SmartGuidePreference, AutoCorrectPreference, SpellPreference, PolygonPreference, DictionaryPreference, FontLockingPreference, MojikumiUiPreference, ContourOption, TextWrapPreference, TextEditingPreference, FrameFittingOption, ObjectExportOption, PageItemDefault, EndnoteOption, TextFrameFootnoteOptionsObject, TaggedPDFPreference, InteractivePDFExportPreference, PDFAttribute, PDFPlacePreference, PDFExportPreference, IMEPreference, GraphicLayerOption, ClippingPathSettings, ImageIOPreference, ImagePreference, ToolBox, EPSExportPreference, PrintBookletPrintPreference, PrintBookletOption, PrintPreference, ViewPreference, PasteboardPreference, MarginPreference, GuidePreference, GridPreference, DocumentPreference, TextDefault, TextPreference, TextFramePreference, StoryPreference, PathPoint, Path, GradientStop, AutoCorrectTable, UserDictionary, HyphenationException, Font, TransformationMatrix, PDFExportPreset, NestedStyle, TabStop, Text, InsertionPoint, TextStyleRange, Paragraph, TextColumn, Line, Word, Character, NestedGrepStyle or NestedLineStyle).
propagationStopped	Boolean	readonly	If true, propagation of the event beyond the current target has been stopped.
properties	Object	read/write	A property that allows setting of several properties at the same time.
target	Object	readonly	The target of the event.
timeStamp	Date	readonly	The time the event was initialized.

Constants/Events

Name	Type	Access	Description
AFTER_ACTIVATE	String	readonly	Dispatched after the Event becomes active. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_CLOSE	String	readonly	Dispatched when a Event is closing. Since the close has been committed, it can no longer be canceled. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_CONTEXT_CHANGED	String	readonly	Dispatched after the active context changes. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_DELETE	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is deleted. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_EMBED	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is embedded. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_INVOKE	String	readonly	Dispatched after the Event is invoked. This event does not bubble. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_LINKS_CHANGED	String	readonly	Dispatched after one or more links in the Event have been added, deleted, or modified. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_MOVE	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is relocated from one object to another. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_NEW	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is created. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_OPEN	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is opened. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_PLACE	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is placed. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_QUIT	String	readonly	Dispatched when the Event is quitting. Since the quit has been committed, it can not be canceled. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_SELECTION_ATTRIBUTE_CHANGED	String	readonly	Dispatched after an attribute on the active selection changes. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_SELECTION_CHANGED	String	readonly	Dispatched after the active selection changes. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_UNEMBED	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is unembedded. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
AFTER_UPDATE	String	readonly	Dispatched after a Event is updated. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
BEFORE_CLOSE	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is closed. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_DEACTIVATE	String	readonly	Dispatched before the Event becomes inactive. This event bubbles. This event is not cancelable.
BEFORE_DELETE	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is deleted. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_DISPLAY	String	readonly	Dispatched before the Event is displayed. This event does not bubble. This event is not cancelable.
BEFORE_EMBED	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is embedded. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_INVOKE	String	readonly	Dispatched before the Event is invoked. This event does not bubble. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_MOVE	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is relocated from one object to another. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_PLACE	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is placed. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_QUIT	String	readonly	Dispatched before the Event is quit. Allows the quit to be canceled. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_UNEMBED	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is unembedded. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
BEFORE_UPDATE	String	readonly	Dispatched before a Event is updated. This event bubbles. This event is cancelable.
ON_INVOKE	String	readonly	Dispatched when the Event is invoked. This event does not bubble. This event is not cancelable.