Event accessing problem

[Mohsen]

Hi,
I'm trying to fire a registered event manually. I'm using obj.addEventListener on Mozilla and obj.attachEvent on IE . Is there any method to fire events registered on an element?

The classic event registeration mechanism works fine, since we can just write:

formObj.onsubmit = anEvent; 

and call it easily with

formObj.anEvent();

[DrDoc]

You have two options:

1) fire the event which would trigger the function call
2) call the function directly

So, in your example:

formObj.onsubmit = anEvent;

1)

formObj.submit();

2)

anEvent();

Both would cause the specified function to be run. The difference is just whether you actually want the form submission (or link click, or whatever else events you are capturing) to actually take place or not.

[Mohsen]

1) fire the event which would trigger the function call

It doesn't work! You know that events are not fired when the corresponding javascript method is called. For example form.submit() will not fire onsubmit event.

[DrDoc]

It should fire the corresponding event.

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