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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">onmousedown, onmouseup</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">4</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Bubbles: Yes; Cancelable: Yes&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Fires when the user presses down (<span class="literal">onmousedown</span>) or
releases (<span class="literal">onmouseup</span>) a mouse button. Events
related to mouse click actions fire in this order:
<span class="literal">onmousedown</span>, <span class="literal">onmouseup</span>, and
<span class="literal">onclick</span>.
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			An <span class="literal">event</span> object created from a mouse event has
numerous properties filled with details such as coordinates of the
click, the mouse button used, and whether any modifier keys were held
down during the event. The event handler function can inspect these
properties as needed.
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Note that in Netscape 6, mouse events can fire on child text nodes of
container-type elements, meaning that the event
object's <span class="literal">target</span> property
references the node, rather than the element. See Chapter 6 for details about the impact of this W3C
DOM-endorsed behavior and cross-browser solutions.
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			All rendered elements, except in Navigator 4, where the events are
limited to button-style <span class="literal">input</span> elements, plus
<span class="literal">a</span> and <span class="literal">area</span> elements.
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