UI Event Order

W3C Working Draft, 21 September 2016

This version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-event-order--20160921/
Latest version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/eventorder/
Editor's Draft:: https://github.com/w3c/eventorder/
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Issue Tracking:: GitHub
Editor:: Gary Kacmarcik (Google)

Abstract

This specification defines the order in which various [UIEvents] should fire.

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1. Introduction

A canonical list of event order so that this info isn’t split across multiple specifications.

2. Event Order

Shifting focus from element A to element B

focusout - Sent before element A loses focus
focusin - Sent before element B receives focus
blur - Sent after element A loses focus
focus - Sent after element B receives focus
mousemove
mouseout
mouseleave
mouseover
mouseenter
mousedown
mouseup
click
dblclick
keydown
compositionstart
beforeinput
compositionupdate
input
compositionend
keyup

3. Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following people for the discussions that lead to the creation of this proposal:

Gary Kacmarcik (Google), Johannes Wilm (Fidus), Chong Zhang (Google)

References

Informative References

[UIEVENTS]: Gary Kacmarcik; Travis Leithead. UI Events Specification. 15 December 2015. WD. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/