onclick question 1

[jaschulz]

Does the function called by an onclick event know the id of the dom element that was clicked?

For instance, given:

<a href="#" id="DUMMY" onclick="myProc()">Dummy</a>

does myProc know it was called by DUMMY, and if it does, how do I refer to DUMMY within the body of myProc?

Thanks,

JAS

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

There are several ways around this. You could do a cross-browser lookup on the event data to determine the element in question, but it might be easier to pass it through:

function myProc(srcEl) {
   alert(srcEl.id);
}

...

<a href="#" id="dummy1" onclick="[!]myProc(this);[/!]">Dummy Link 1</a>

<a href="#" id="dummy2" onclick="[!]myProc(this);[/!]">Dummy Link 2</a>

<a href="#" id="dummy3" onclick="[!]myProc(this);[/!]">Dummy Link 3</a>

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Jas,

How did you go with this? Did my example work for you?

Dan



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