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<h1>HTML DOM Events</h1>
<h2>The onmousedown Event</h2>
<p>Assign an "onmousedown" and "onmouseup" event to a p element.</p>
<p id="demo" onmousedown="mouseDown()" onmouseup="mouseUp()">Click me.</p>
<script>
function mouseDown() {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "The mouse button is held down.";
}
function mouseUp() {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "You released the mouse button.";
}
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