whitespace in onclick event

[Tarantulus]

Hi all,

I have an "onclick" event like so:

<span onclick="getElementById('container').value='foo'>foo</span>

which works, however if I replace "foo" with "foo bar" it fails

<span onclick="getElementById('container').value='foo bar'>foo bar</span>

I'm assuming it's due to the whitespace, is there a way to escape it that I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance

[acoder]

Not sure how the first one worked. It should be document.getEle mentById().

[Tarantulus]

odd, it works fine without "document".

I've added that it anyway and it still fails, I tried 'foo'+' '+'bar' as well, and that sort of worked but only returned 'foo'

[acoder]

You've forgotten to close the double quote of the onclick.

[Tarantulus]

You've forgotten to close the double quote of the onclick.

spotted and rectified, thanks!

[acoder]

I'm not sure how it worked at all to be honest. Anyway, glad it's now working.

[gits]

unless the getElementById( ) method is declared globally or somehow published to the window by an included script/lib or something like that ... i'm also wondering how this could work?

kind regards

[Tarantulus]

I don't know, but it does! :)

[gits]

do you use any included library/script in your code? i think that is the only possible explaination for that ... so it is a 'custom' function in your app that just calls document.getEle mentById() ...

kind regards

[acoder]

Interesting. I just tested on FF3 and it does work! May have something to do with quirks mode possibly. However, I'm still not sure how it worked without the missing quote.