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Event Handlers in script code?
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Oisín
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Mar 20, 2004, 12:40 AM
 
Okay, I'm not very advanced at JavaScripting, and I don't really like using it too much...

But say I want to make a script that automatically handles the onMouseOver and onMouseOut events, but I want these to be specified in the script itself, not in the link, how would I go about doing that?

I'm not sure I'm making myself clear here... To take an example, say I have a little menu with each menu point being set up as a TD in a table (I know, it's not really tabular information, but it works the best in this case). I then want the background colour of each TD to change on mouse-over. This would of course be very simple to do by simply doing:

<td onmouseover="....." onmouseout=".....">...</td>

But this is so messy and unflexible and annoying...

So I thought I would write a short, simple script that did the same thing - but no luck! I've tried Googling it, but I can't find anything about it, so now I'm asking here...

What I had in mind was something like this:

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function switchOn() { this.style.backgroundColor = "#B0D0FF"; } function switchOff() { this.style.backgroundColor = "#FFFFFF"; } document.getElementByTagName('td').onMouseOver = switchOn(); document.getElementByTagName('td').onMouseOut = switchOff();
Obviously, this doesn't work or I wouldn't be asking, but you get the idea...

Any way to do that?
     
Chris O'Brien
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Mar 20, 2004, 08:43 AM
 
Standard based browsers and IE handle thing differently, so do something like:
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if (document.addEventListener) { document.getElementById("whatever").addEventListener("mouseover", doSomething, false); } else { document.document.getElementById("whatever").attachEvent("onmouseover", doSomething); }
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Oisín  (op)
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Mar 20, 2004, 11:12 AM
 
Thanks - I finally got it to work after finding out that the event had to be all lowercase and to scratch the brackets when calling the function...
     
   
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