Question

I have a mouseDown event and a click event on the same element. When I click on it, the mouseDown event fires (i.e. alerts "Mouse pressed on P"), but the click event doesn’t. However, if I comment out the mouseDown alert statement, the click event does display its alert. Why is this? http://jsfiddle.net/A8vhq/

Answer 1

That’s because the click never happens, when the alert box appears it interrupts the mouseup event on the element, thus interrupting mouseclick.

use console.log('message') to test your code instead of alert.