Does the onclick Attribute Catch Middle Clicks?

Question

I know you can get this working with an event listener, but is it possible to catch middle clicks with the onclick attribute in HTML?

For example:

<span onclick="alert('hi');">middle click me<span>

http://jsfiddle.net/cB8Qv/

Why is this a question? Have you tried to middle click in your fiddle? — Jace, Apr 24 '13 at 04:51
I believe the question is what is the official statement .. i could not find one. Every official doc reference to a pointing device and does not provide any knowledge to what button specifically suppose to be click.. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.onclick http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html#adef-onclick — Mortalus, Apr 24 '13 at 04:54
@Jace I tried, it doesn't work for me, the user Class says it works for him — Kirk Ouimet, Apr 24 '13 at 04:57
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1795734/triggering-onclick-event-using-middle-click and http://unixpapa.com/js/mouse.html — thefrontender, Apr 24 '13 at 05:29
Interesting background on the webkit implementation of the middle click behavior: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22382 — Brandon, Apr 24 '13 at 08:02
Doesn't work for me in Firefox Aurora channel. Windows 8 x64. — Glitch Desire, Apr 24 '13 at 13:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '13 at 13:29

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A middle click is still giving off a click to your system, so yes it does work. Depending on your system this can do weird things such as opening a new window. Not sure how this affects on-clicks. But they will work.

answered Apr 24 '13 at 13:29

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Vloxxity · Answer 2 · 2013-04-24T13:50:39.853

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If you put this around your span instead of using the onClick you can also use middle clicks (in all browsers),but its called bad practice .

<a href="javascript:alert('hi');">
    <span>middle click me</span>
</a>

edited Apr 24 '13 at 13:50

answered Apr 24 '13 at 13:45

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Does the onclick Attribute Catch Middle Clicks?

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