[Javascript] Problem w/Javascript, interpolation, functions, onclick

[mwarden at gmail.com (Matt Warden)]

On 10/25/06, Nathan V. Patwardhan <nvp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     <span id="addthis" onclick="function1(this)">Add This</span>
>     <span id="cancel" onclick="function2(this)">Cancel</span>
>   </td>
>
> I pass 'this' to a function -- since 'this' represents the current span
> that was selected.  My code finds the last (third) cell in the current
> row (of 'this'), and modifies contents of the same table row to reflect
> which of the spans was selected.

I am not sure whether onclick will fire on spans in all browsers. But,
assuming it will, try this instead of passing 'this':

http://mwarden.f2o.org/sandbox/getidfromeventhandler.js




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