onbeforecut event

Fires on the source object before the selection is deleted from the document.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element onbeforecut = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onbeforecut = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onbeforecut", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("beforecut", handler, useCapture)

There are no standards that apply here.

Creating custom code for cutting requires several steps:

Set event.returnValue=false in the HTMLControlElementEvents::onbeforecut event to enable the Cut shortcut menu item.
Specify a data format in which to transfer the selection through the IHTMLDataTransfer::setData method of the clipboardData object.
Invoke the IHTMLDataTransfer::setData method in the HTMLControlElementEvents::oncut event.

None.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces: