HLP: DHTML/Javascript

[John Smith]

Hello all, I have a page that generates a form with dynamic rows of data.

The dynamic part is done by javascript and I have added onClick, also
tried onFocus, attribute in the dynamic field.

In mozilla's it works like a charm and the DOM in mozilla shows input
text field correctly with the onClick attribute

IE however does not do anything, nada, nothing, even when I just specify
a simple alert(); ????? Help (am I going stupid or is IE stupid ?)

This is what I use to set the attribute, where the onClickArray contains
the diffirent onclicks for the dynamic fields:

formField.setAt tribute('onClic k',onClickArray[j]);


Any help gratly appreciated!

[Michael Winter]

Re: HLP: DHTML/Javascript

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:32:37 GMT, John Smith <jsmith@js.co m> wrote:
[color=blue]
> The dynamic part is done by javascript and I have added onClick, also
> tried onFocus, attribute in the dynamic field.
>
> In mozilla's it works like a charm and the DOM in mozilla shows input
> text field correctly with the onClick attribute
>
> IE however does not do anything, nada, nothing, even when I just specify
> a simple alert(); ????? Help (am I going stupid or is IE stupid ?)
>
> This is what I use to set the attribute, where the onClickArray contains
> the diffirent onclicks for the dynamic fields:
>
> formField.setAt tribute('onClic k',onClickArray[j]);[/color]

Try using

formField.addEv entListener('cl ick',listener);

or

formField.oncli ck = listener;

instead. Note that the former is a DOM method, so you should use feature
detection before using it - especially as IE doesn't support it. If
detection fails, you could fall back on the latter.

Be aware that 'listener', in both cases, is a reference to a function that
expects a single argument: event[1]. If you have a handler that takes your
own arguments, you can use an intermediary.

<input ... onclick="someHa ndler(this.form )">

might become

formField.oncli ck = function(evt) {
someHandler(thi s.form);
}

The operator, this, still refers the same input element in both cases.

Does that help?

Mike


[1] IE is different - there are no expected arguments. It stores the event
data in a different object, window.event. This event object also contains
different properties than that of the standard event object. Typical
Microsoft...

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Michael Winter
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[John Smith]

Re: HLP: DHTML/Javascript

Super thanks,

and yes M$ has to screw every thing up ! did you hear that they are
trying to patent the virual desktop that *nix had for the last 20 years,
they even use KDE and gnome screen shorts in their patent.

If I did not know better I would think that their new bussiness plan is
to be just hated.

Michael Winter wrote:[color=blue]
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:32:37 GMT, John Smith <jsmith@js.co m> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> The dynamic part is done by javascript and I have added onClick, also
>> tried onFocus, attribute in the dynamic field.
>>
>> In mozilla's it works like a charm and the DOM in mozilla shows input
>> text field correctly with the onClick attribute
>>
>> IE however does not do anything, nada, nothing, even when I just
>> specify a simple alert(); ????? Help (am I going stupid or is IE
>> stupid ?)
>>
>> This is what I use to set the attribute, where the onClickArray
>> contains the diffirent onclicks for the dynamic fields:
>>
>> formField.setAt tribute('onClic k',onClickArray[j]);[/color]
>
>
> Try using
>
> formField.addEv entListener('cl ick',listener);
>
> or
>
> formField.oncli ck = listener;
>
> instead. Note that the former is a DOM method, so you should use feature
> detection before using it - especially as IE doesn't support it. If
> detection fails, you could fall back on the latter.
>
> Be aware that 'listener', in both cases, is a reference to a function
> that expects a single argument: event[1]. If you have a handler that
> takes your own arguments, you can use an intermediary.
>
> <input ... onclick="someHa ndler(this.form )">
>
> might become
>
> formField.oncli ck = function(evt) {
> someHandler(thi s.form);
> }
>
> The operator, this, still refers the same input element in both cases.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Mike
>
>
> [1] IE is different - there are no expected arguments. It stores the
> event data in a different object, window.event. This event object also
> contains different properties than that of the standard event object.
> Typical Microsoft...
>[/color]