Set onBlur() programmatically?

[Andrew Thompson]

Is it possible to set the onBlur of
a link or other focusable element
programmatically?

A search of the archive showed plenty of
examples of setting the onBlur() for each
link or form element when it was defined,
but I am after something that can iterate
all links in the page and add a common
onBlur functionality to every one.

[ I only require this to fix problems with
particular pages, but then I need to apply
the fix to whatever focusable elements are
on the page. ]

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[Michael Winter]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47:44 GMT, Andrew Thompson <Se********@www.invalid>
wrote:

Is it possible to set the onBlur of
a link or other focusable element
programmatically?

Yes. The code below works specifically with links (A elements with href
attributes). If you can get object references, you can do a similar thing
with any element that supports the blur intrinsic event.

function myListener(evt) {
evt = evt || window.event;
}

for(var i = 0, l = document.links, n = l.length; i < n; ++i) {
l[i].onblur = myListener;
}

Be aware that the code above will destroy a listener defined by the onblur
HTML attribute.

[snip]

Hope that helps,
Mike

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[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:52:42 GMT, Michael Winter wrote:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47:44 GMT, Andrew Thompson wrote:

Is it possible to set the onBlur ..
programmatically?

Yes. The code below works specifically with links..

Works perfectly for my purposes.

Thank you muchly. :-)

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