DropDown OnClick event doesn't fire 1

[FancyPrairie]

I have a script that looks like this:

<script language=vbscript>
sub MyListBox_onclick()
    msgbox "here i am"
end sub
</script>

1. The event fires if I code my page like this:

<select id=MyListBox ... [COLOR=blue]onclick=MyListBox_onclick()[/color]>...</select>

2. It won't fire if I code my page like this:

<select id=MyListBox>...</select>

However, method 2 works for all other controls. Why won't it work for a list box?

I don't want to add the onclick event to the Select statement. Rather I want to assign the onclick event via code. Like this (which works for all controls except for the list box):

Dim oEvents
set oEvents = getref("MyListBox_onclick")
document.all(strListBoxName).attachEvent "onclick", oEvents

 

[tsuji]

Use "onchange" instead of "onclick". But if you use "onclick" it still works (contrary to what you describe - I can't reproduce it anyway) only that everyone gets unpleasant experience using the page or that its performance is not what you would expected.

 

[FancyPrairie]

Thanks. It seems like I've always experienced the problem and assumed it to be a "feature" of list boxes. But because you said it works on your end, I revisted my code and discovered that the program I'm using to build the pages was introducing some code into the tag properties which caused my problem.