Crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter

Question

Does anyone know of crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter? This parameter is Mozilla specific and it gives me the element that caused the blur. L

Answer 1

IE srcElement does not contain the same element as FF explicitOriginalTarget. It's easy to see this: if you have a button field with onClick action and a text field with onChange action, change the text field and move the cursor directly to the button and click it. At that point the IE srcElement will be the text field, but the explicitOriginalTarget will be the button field. For IE, you can get the x,y coordinates of the mouse click from the event.x and event.y properties.

Unfortunately, the Chrome browser provides neither the explicitOriginalTarget nor the mouse coordinates for the click. You are left to your own devices to figure out where the onChange event was fired from. To do this, judicious use of mousemove and mouseout events can provide mouse tracking which can then be inspected in the onChange handler.