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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The onclick event is used to define actions to be taken when a mouse button is depressed and then released again (ie. clicked). This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called onclick but if you do then you will not be able to detect mouse clicks using this method.
Examples:
window.onclick=myFunction;
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