Event:

In application programming, an event is a notification that occurs in response to some action. It can be a change in state or as a result of the user clicking or moving the mouse, pressing a keyboard key, or other actions that are focus-related, element-specific, or object-specific. Programmers write code that respond to these actions. In Web development, HTML events are triggered and handled by code that is executed in the browser, and thus don’t generally apply to ASP. Strictly speaking, only events that require a round-trip back to the Web server involve ASP code.

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