Writing event handler in HTML tag vs. via scripting

[VA]

If I have

<td onMouseOver="foo(event,this,'string');">something</td>

It works fine i.e. the event handler function foo is fired with the
event parameter containing the event. I do the cross-browser thing to
handle the event parameter
var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((window.event) ? event : null);
and I am all set

But when I try to do the same thing by scripting i.e. get the TD node
via the DOM and add in the event handler like so
var td=document.getElementById('tdid')
td.onmouseover=function() {
foo(event,this,"string");
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It works in IE, but in Firefox (1.x), I get an error in the JS console
"event is not defined".

Why is this? Any way to get consistent, cross-browser behaviour?

Thanks

 

[Martin Honnen]

VA wrote:

td.onmouseover=function() {
foo(event,this,"string");
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It works in IE, but in Firefox (1.x), I get an error in the JS console
"event is not defined".

You need to have a formal parameter for the event handler function:
td.onmouseover = function (evt) {
foo(evt || event, this, "string");
};

 

[Dennis Ålund]

Event is not defined because it's not within the scope where it is
referred. You must add an argument when you assign the function to
onmouseover like this:

td.onmouseover=function(event) {
foo(event,this,"string");
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

td.onmouseover=function(event) {
foo(event,this,"string");
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This will most certainly fail in IE since the local `event'
argument with value `undefined' will override any globally
defined `event' property in the scope chain.


PointedEars