onclick event not firing

[jrlaughlin]

Hello all.

Here is my situation. I'm inserting a row into a table from a child window using javascript. The following code assumes that the variable "table" has been defined.

row = table.insertRow(-1);
row.onclick = 'java script:alert("hi")';

Then I go on to add some cells to the row and content in the cells. Then I close the child window and I am looking at the table with the new row.

My problem is that when I click on the new row, the onclick event seems to not be firing.

Any help would be appreciated.

James.

 

[vongrunt]

java what?

 

[trollacious]

First, javascript is one word.

Second, event handlers already target the scripting languages, so you don't need to add the "javascript:" preface to the function being called.

So, your onclick event handler IS firing, but you aren't telling it to do anything coherent.

 

[SammyPati]

Hi James,

I have exactly the same problem with the onclick event not firing.
Have you found a way around it yet?

Following is a snippet of code I'm using


Sam



function addToTable(i)
{
var x=document.getElementById("ParentTable").insertRow(i);
var newCell=x.insertCell(0);
lastParent++;
newCell.innerHTML="&nbsp;<input id='Parent" + lastParent + "' type='text' size='35' maxlength='25' value='' >";
newCell.style.backgroundColor="lightblue";
newCell.style.border="0";
newCell.style.cursor="pointer";
newCell.innerText=NewParentCode.value;
newCell.onclick='MyFunction()'; // this is never called
NewParentCode.value="";
NewParentCode.style.display="none";
document.getElementById("ParentTable").disabled=false;
}