addEventListener function in IE

[Michael Hill]

I received an error on the addEventListener line in this function.

function load()
{
el = document.getElementById("t");
el.addEventListener("click", l_func, false);
}

I am using IE 6.0.

Does IE use something else?

Mike

[Martin Honnen]

Michael Hill wrote:

I received an error on the addEventListener line in this function.

function load()
{
el = document.getElementById("t");
el.addEventListener("click", l_func, false);
}

I am using IE 6.0.

Does IE use something else?

There is no current IE version supporting addEventListener which is a
method defined in the W3C DOM Level 2 Events module which IE doesn't
support.
IE 5.5 and IE 6 on Windows support
el.attachEvent('onclick', l_func)
so the difference is that you need to use 'oneventname' as the first
argument instead of 'eventname' and that there is only a second argument
, the function. The event model in IE only supports event bubbling so
there is no third argument.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Michael Hill]

Martin,

Yes that works ... just one thing though.

How do you then stop event propagation or the bubbling from going up
through the heirarchy?

Mike

Martin Honnen wrote:

Michael Hill wrote:

I received an error on the addEventListener line in this function.

function load()
{
el = document.getElementById("t");
el.addEventListener("click", l_func, false);
}

I am using IE 6.0.

Does IE use something else?

There is no current IE version supporting addEventListener which is a
method defined in the W3C DOM Level 2 Events module which IE doesn't
support.
IE 5.5 and IE 6 on Windows support
el.attachEvent('onclick', l_func)
so the difference is that you need to use 'oneventname' as the first
argument instead of 'eventname' and that there is only a second argument
, the function. The event model in IE only supports event bubbling so
there is no third argument.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Martin Honnen]

Michael Hill wrote:

How do you then stop event propagation or the bubbling from going up
through the heirarchy?

In IE's event model you need to set
window.event.cancelBubble = true;
to achieve that, see the documentation at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../obj_event.asp

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/