replacing an onclick event

[John Livermore]

From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
an element and replace it dynamically with my own.

I have tried the following...

control.onclick = 'myHandler();';

but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks,
John

 

[Lee]

John said:

From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
an element and replace it dynamically with my own.

I have tried the following...

control.onclick = 'myHandler();';

but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?

control.onclick=myHandler;

You're not replacing an event, you're replacing an event handler.
Event handlers are functions, not strings.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
an element and replace it dynamically with my own.

I have tried the following...

control.onclick = 'myHandler();';

but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?

You have to assign a function.
Try
control.onclick = myHandler;

/L

 

[Phil N]

From javascript in IE, I have a need to hijack the onclick event for
an element and replace it dynamically with my own.

I have tried the following...

control.onclick = 'myHandler();';

but this doesn't seem to do the trick. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks,
John

captureEvents ???

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