Custom Component: using HtmlSelectOneMenu

I'm currently developing a custom comboBox. I'm using HtmlSelectOneMenu class as a base for my component. I've notice that in the class, there's a bunch of getters and setters defined for "onEvent" and other html attribute.
My question is the following:
What the purpose of this?
What tasks are they meant to?
Is it for backing Bean binding?
(I should have written queston"s" after all!!)
What I know for a fact so far, and correct me if I'm wrong, it's not meant to render attributes. The attribute of the components tag must first be defined in the .tld . Then, attributes needs to have their getters and setters defined in the class that extends UIComponentTag (or UIComponentBodyTag). Since the HtmlSelectOneMenu class is use to set converter, validator and render (if you don't use an external one), why these getters and setters are there?
Any explanations on that will be very appreciate.
Thanks in advance!

Are you talking about setOnblur(), setOnfocus(), setOnmouseover(), etc? If it is, than those functions can be use to include javascript. One thing I use it in HtmlInputText is
inputText.setOnfocus("select()"); which will select everything in the textbox when the use click on it.

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