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Capture event of element created by JavaScript?

         

JAB Creations

2:37 pm on Apr 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



This will either be amazingly simple or mind bendingly difficult but how do we get a JavaScript event listener started onload to see new elements created by JavaScript after the page is loaded (and not created by AJAX but by using createElement)?

- John

httpwebwitch

9:00 pm on Apr 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



this is, thankfully, of the amazingly simple variety.
after you create the element, you can add an event listener to it by assigning a function to the "on something" property of the object.

var thing = createElement...

thing.onclick = function(){
//do something
}

thing.onmouseover = function(){
// do something else
}