Simulating an event

[Ian Collins]

Anyone know how to trigger event listeners bound to an element using DOM
level 2 addEventListener or IE's attachEvent?

It's easy with DOM level 0 where the listener is an element attribute
just to call the function from test code (element.onclick() for
example), but not for registered listeners.

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Ian Collins.

[RobG]

On Apr 1, 8:48 am, Ian Collins <[e-mail]:

Anyone know how to trigger event listeners bound to an element using DOM
level 2 addEventListener or IE's attachEvent?

Try dispatchEvent, some examples:

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http://groups.google.com.au/group/co...cea9cdf065a524

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<URL: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs....dispatchEvent >
IE doesn't support it, but you might be able to similuate it with its
proprietary fireEvent method:

<URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd6edt33.aspx >

It's easy with DOM level 0 where the listener is an element attribute
just to call the function from test code (element.onclick() for
example), but not for registered listeners.

I'm not sure that qualifies as "DOM 0", it seems to be a consequence
of using the call operator with an object property, which is plain
javascript to me. DOM 0 is something quite different:

<URL: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Category:DOM_0 >
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Rob

[Ian Collins]

RobG wrote:

On Apr 1, 8:48 am, Ian Collins <[e-mail]:

>>Anyone know how to trigger event listeners bound to an element using DOM
level 2 addEventListener or IE's attachEvent?

Try dispatchEvent, some examples:

IE doesn't support it, but you might be able to similuate it with its
proprietary fireEvent method:

<URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd6edt33.aspx >

Thanks, I'll check that out.

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>>It's easy with DOM level 0 where the listener is an element attribute
just to call the function from test code (element.onclick() for
example), but not for registered listeners.

I'm not sure that qualifies as "DOM 0", it seems to be a consequence
of using the call operator with an object property, which is plain
javascript to me. DOM 0 is something quite different:

I was using the term for basic event handling through element attributes

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Ian Collins.