magically set or change an onClick attribute

[apparition]

Right now, I have a script that loops through the links array and searches the href attribute of each link for a specific value. If it finds it, the href attribute for that link is changed to a javascript function call. I would much rather use the onClick event handler to call the function but I can't set it without actually typing "onClick='function call'" in the A tag. Is there a way to set it without actually typing it out?

 

[apparition]

~bump~

No luck yet...

 

[UNIMENT]

In Internet Explorer, there is a property of the

event

object called

srcElement

. It is a reference to the object that the event just fired on.

How about this.

document.onclick=function() {
 if (event.srcElement.href == "doggy_style.html")
  ; // Execute code
};

What that does is this:
When the document is clicked, the script finds the element the event fired on. If it's

href

is "doggy_style.html", then execute some code. Keep in mind that this code works only in IE. I haven't found the way to get the same result in NS 6, and NS 4 simply doesn't have the support for it.

 

[apparition]

Thanks UNIMENT,
That is definately better than nothing. I can use your suggestion for IE and use my old way for all other browsers. The script already detects the browser version anyways.

Another question for ya.

Did you look that up in the jscript documentation on microsoft's site? I'm lookin for a downloadable version to use. I have the VBScript documentation but I can't remember where I found it.