Event Handlers

[Prakash Nathan]

Hi,

Could you please suggest a way to implement the following requirement in JSP?
Consider the following text is present in a JSP Page.

"This is a sample text"

When the user do a "double click" on any of the above words, i need to invoke a servlet. Is there any way to capture the 'double click' event.

Thanks!
Prakash A

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes, as with everything else on an HTML page, with Javascript.

Moved to the HTML forum.

[Eric Pascarello]

wrap it in a span tag and add ondblclick and call a function that posts back the page.

Eric

[Rob Hunter]

Eric,
Do you have a listing of browsers that support the span tag? Thanks.

Rob

[Eric Pascarello]

ALL current day browsers....It is an HTML element just like the div and table elements

[Prakash Nathan]

Thanks for your replies.

Let me explain wat exactly my requirement is.

JSP file has the following senetence.
"parameter1 parameter2 parameter3"

If the user, double clicks on any of the parameter i need to invoke a servlet and pass that particular parameter to the servlet.

How to accomplish it?

[Eric Pascarello]

Surround them with spans as I suggested

<span ondblclick="alert("bar");">foo</span>

Eric

[Prakash Nathan]

Hi Eric,

Wrapping the text with SPAN tag is fine.
But, i really have a lots of information to be displayed in the page.
Example, 5-6 paragraphs.

In this case, it would not be fair to wrap each & every word in the paragraph. Is there any global way to accomplish this?

Prakash A