OnClick

Sumaira Maqsood Ali · Jul 30, 2003

hi,
I wanted to know if OnClick can be used outside forms also?
like can plain text have the OnClick event handler associated with it?
thanks
Sumaira

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen · Jul 30, 2003

Sumaira Maqsood Ali said:
I wanted to know if OnClick can be used outside forms also?
like can plain text have the OnClick event handler associated with it?

That depends on the browser.
I tested this code:
<p onclick="alert('foo');">text</p>
in my browsers, and it works in IE6, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 and Opera 6+.
It didn't work in Netscape 4.

/L

Lee · Jul 30, 2003

Lasse said:

That depends on the browser.
I tested this code:
<p onclick="alert('foo');">text</p>
in my browsers, and it works in IE6, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 and Opera 6+.
It didn't work in Netscape 4.

In Netscape 4, you can enclose the text in a Link, with text-decoration:none.

<head>
<style type="text/css">
A {text-decoration:none}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Click <a href="about: Me" onclick="alert('hello');return false">Me</a>.
</body>

Note that this example behaves badly if Javascript isn't enabled.

David Dorward · Jul 30, 2003

Sumaira said:
hi,
I wanted to know if OnClick can be used outside forms also?
like can plain text have the OnClick event handler associated with it?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.3

onclick = script [CT]
The onclick event occurs when the pointing device button is clicked over
an element. This attribute may be used with most elements.

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen · Jul 30, 2003

Sumaira Maqsood Ali said:
It works if I do onClick='alert(....)' but it doesnt work if i do
onClick='somefunction(....)' why is that so?

That must be because "somefunction" doesn't exist or doesn't work,
or there is a typo in the call to it.
/L

kaeli · Jul 31, 2003

[email protected] enlightened us said:
It works if I do onClick='alert(....)' but it doesnt work if i do
onClick='somefunction(....)' why is that so?
thanks
sumaira

You probably have an error in the function or you spelled it differently
- capitalization matters.

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