Change onClick for an anchor tag

[delraydog]

I'm using:

document.getElementById("mylink").childNodes[0].nodeValue = "New
Text";

To change the text value of a link that I've created.

How can I do something similar to change the onclick event?

(doesn't work)
document.getElementById("mylink").onClick="alert(' test')";

Thanks,
Cliff.

[RobB]

[e-mail] wrote:

I'm using:

document.getElementById("mylink").childNodes[0].nodeValue = "New
Text";

To change the text value of a link that I've created.

How can I do something similar to change the onclick event?

(doesn't work)
document.getElementById("mylink").onClick="alert(' test')";

Thanks,
Cliff.

It's 'onclick' (lower-case) for one thing.

You need to assign either a actual function (object) or a pointer:

document.getElementById("mylin*k").onclick=functio n(){alert('test');};

You could, naturally, just use document.createElement('a') to make a
new Link, set its attributes, and call .replaceChild().

[prasad83.a]

You will need to assign a function object to onclick event handler:
document.getElementById("mylink").onclick = function() {
alert("onclick"); } works fine but onclick can send implicit Event
object to the handler which can be quite useful. So you can also set
onclick like: document.getElementById("mylink").onclick =
function(event) { alert(event.type); }

[Evertjan.]

pr********@gmail.com wrote on 28 apr 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:

You will need to assign a function object to onclick event handler:

Please quote!!!!!!!

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