Using the onClick event without having an onClick attribute in HTML?

[deadpool42]

I want to insert some code into the onClick event of various form elements. The problem is that the form is being generated by something else, so I can't just put an onClick attribute into the appropriate tags. I seem to remember being able to do this, but when I use this code,

document.form.element.onClick = alert("test");

the alert appears when the page loads and not when you click the element.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You need to do either assign to a function name, or to a new function you create on-the-fly:

document.forms['formName'].elements['elementName'].onclick = myClickHandler;

function myClickHandler(e) {
   alert("test");
}

document.forms['formName'].elements['elementName'].onclick = function(e) {
   alert("test");
}

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[deadpool42]

I knew it would end up being something stupid like that. I actually had it as a function and was just using the alert to test it. Thanks for the help.