[Javascript] item.onclick = "alert('foo');";

[judah-fc at t8design.com (Judah Frangipane)]

Hi Anthony,

Try something like this,

var item = document.getElementById('foo');
item.onclick = function () {
 alert('foo');
}

on click in javascript may be case sensitive, ie "onClick"

the way you have it you are only passing in a string and not a reference 
to the alert function

to do it your way you have to do this

// assign onclick equal to the alert function
item.onClick = alert;
item.onClick("some value")

but since alert takes a parameter i do not know if it will work. i do 
not know if onClick passes in an evt object so you may have to stick 
with the first example i gave you.

Judah

Anthony Ettinger wrote:

>this doesn't seem to work:
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>var item = document.getElementById('foo');
>item.onclick = "alert('foo');";
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>http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:element.onclick
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