Change the functionality of an event after it has already been set up

Webrookie · May 24, 2001

ok

I have
<form name="entry" method="post" action="next.asp"

<input type="button" name="save" value="Insert" onClick="ShowPage('First','');">

now, later on in my code I want to change the first parameter of the ShowPage function for the onClick event.

document.entry.save.value="Update";
document.entry.save.onClick="ShowPage('Second','');

is this possible? To change what an event does after it's been declared? The value of the save button changes just fine, and I don't get a javascript error on the second line...but when click the button, it proceeds with the 'First' parameter instead of 'Second' as though it never executed...

any ideas?

tleish · May 24, 2001

I don't believe you can change the onClick parameter, you can however put the toggling in the function for both the value and the action:

<html>
<head>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var c = 0;
var aShowAction = new Array("First","Second&quot

;
var aShowValue = new Array("Save","Update&quot

;
function ShowPage(vButton){
alert(aShowAction[c]);
// Increment or reset vCount
(c < aShowAction.length - 1) ? c++ : c = 0;

// Set the value of the button
vButton.value = aShowValue[c]
}

//-->
</SCRIPT>

</head>
<body>

<form name="MyForm">
<input type="button" name="Save" value="Save" ONCLICK="ShowPage(this)">
</form>

</body>
</html>
- tleish

luciddream · May 24, 2001

no, but, you could do this:

document.entry.save.onClick=function(){ShowPage('Second','');}
luciddream@subdimension.com

Webrookie · May 25, 2001

Ok, thanks guys...I'll mess around with it.....upsetting that i can't change what the event does...grrrrrrrr...like the way i want to.

luciddream · May 25, 2001

btw...

document.entry.save.onClick

should be

document.entry.save.onclick luciddream@subdimension.com

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Change the functionality of an event after it has already been set up

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