replacing an onclick event

[John Livermore]

From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
an element and replace it dynamically with my own.

I have tried the following...

control.onclick = 'myHandler();';

but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks,
John

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: replacing an onclick event

John Livermore <john.livermore @nospm-inginix.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
> an element and replace it dynamically with my own.[/color]
[color=blue]
> I have tried the following...[/color]
[color=blue]
> control.onclick = 'myHandler();';
>
> but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?[/color]

You have to assign a function.
Try
control.onclick = myHandler;

/L
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[Lee]

Re: replacing an onclick event

John said:[color=blue]
>
>From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
>an element and replace it dynamically with my own.
>
>I have tried the following...
>
>control.onclic k = 'myHandler();';
>
>but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?[/color]

control.onclick =myHandler;

You're not replacing an event, you're replacing an event handler.
Event handlers are functions, not strings.

[Phil N]

Re: replacing an onclick event

John Livermore wrote:[color=blue]
> From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
> an element and replace it dynamically with my own.
>
> I have tried the following...
>
> control.onclick = 'myHandler();';
>
> but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> John[/color]

captureEvents ???

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