element.attachEvent issues

[Bastien]

Hi All,

Stuck trying to add event handles to a form which is dynamically generated. At the end of the main page, I have a call like this

<script language='javascript'>SetStatus(0);registerMyEvents();</script>

and then in my function I want to do this

function registerMyEvents()
{
  if (document.getElementById('EMAIL'))          { document.getElementById('EMAIL').attachEvent('onblur',checkStatesForIdCapture);            }
  if (document.getElementById('STATE_ID_NUMBER')){ document.getElementById('STATE_ID_NUMBER').attachEvent('onblur',checkStatesForIdCapture);  }
  if (document.getElementById('STATE_ID_STATE')) { document.getElementById('STATE_ID_STATE').attachEvent('onchange', checkStatesForIdCapture; }
}

When I do that I get an error in another part of the main page, but when the function is cleared out, the page loads fine.

I am sure that I have done something dumb, and if someone could point me in the correct direction, I'd appreciate it





Bastien

I wish my computer would do what I want it to do,
instead of what I tell it to do...

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Are you running this code in IE? if not, that might be it, as attachEvent is IE-only AFAIK...

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536343(VS.85).aspx

for more on making a cross-browser solution.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[Bastien]

It is IE only, and that is ok as the client only runs IE. Once I get it working on IE, i will be changing this to be more cross browser compliant

Bastien

I wish my computer would do what I want it to do,
instead of what I tell it to do...

 

[feherke]

Hi

Just correct the syntax and should work :

function registerMyEvents()
{
  if (document.getElementById('EMAIL'))          { document.getElementById('EMAIL').attachEvent('onblur',checkStatesForIdCapture);            }
  if (document.getElementById('STATE_ID_NUMBER')){ document.getElementById('STATE_ID_NUMBER').attachEvent('onblur',checkStatesForIdCapture);  }
  if (document.getElementById('STATE_ID_STATE')) { document.getElementById('STATE_ID_STATE').attachEvent('onchange', checkStatesForIdCapture[COLOR=red pink][b])[/b][/color]; }
}

Feherke.

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