Dynamically Assigning OnChange Handler

Hi All,

I'm creating textareas via the DOM and I'm trying to add the onchange
event to them. Here's my code:

mytextarea = document.createElement("textarea");
mytextarea.onchange = mymethod;
mytextarea.name = "textarea1";
mytextarea.value = "";
..
..
..

In another script file, I have the mymethod() function defined like
this:

function mymethod()
{
..
..
..
}


I tried various incarnations of setting the onchange event:

mytextarea.onchange = "mymethod()"; and onchange = "mymethod";. None
of which works. What's the secret to dynamically defining the
onchange event?

On Jun 3, 2:08*pm, HugeBob <rnu... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm creating textareas via the DOM and I'm trying to add the onchange
event to them. *Here's my code:

mytextarea = document.createElement("textarea");
mytextarea.onchange = mymethod;
mytextarea.name = "textarea1";
mytextarea.value = "";
.
.
.

In another script file, I have the mymethod() function defined like
this:

function mymethod()
{
.
.
.

}

I tried various incarnations of setting the onchange event:

mytextarea.onchange = "mymethod()"; and onchange = "mymethod";. *None
of which works. *What's the secret to dynamically defining the
onchange event?

The following worked for me:

mytextarea.onchange = function() { mymethod(); };

On Jun 3, 2:36 pm, Tom Cole <tco... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

On Jun 3, 2:08 pm, HugeBob <rnu... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:



Hi All,

I'm creating textareas via the DOM and I'm trying to add the onchange
event to them. Here's my code:

mytextarea = document.createElement("textarea");
mytextarea.onchange = mymethod;
mytextarea.name = "textarea1";
mytextarea.value = "";
.
.
.

In another script file, I have the mymethod() function defined like
this:

function mymethod()
{
.
.
.

}

I tried various incarnations of setting the onchange event:

mytextarea.onchange = "mymethod()"; and onchange = "mymethod";. None
of which works. What's the secret to dynamically defining the
onchange event?

The following worked for me:

mytextarea.onchange = function() { mymethod(); };

Hi Tom,

That worked! Thanks.

The following worked for me:

mytextarea.onchange = function() { mymethod(); };

This should also work

mytextarea.onchange = mymethod