Re: assigning event with attachEvent instead of onmouseover

webgour schrieb am 10.06.2008 17:01:

I'm having difficulty using attachEvent instead of simply assigning to
mouseover in my object Sample03. When i use myImage.onmouseover =
this.showmouseover(); in the following all works fine, if I replace it by
myImage.attachEvent('onmouseover',this.showmouseov er()); I get for the
alert(this.id) "undefined" and not "gwlogo"

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_advanced.html

"The event handling function is referenced, not copied, so the this
keyword always refers to the window and is completely useless."

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Holger Jeromin

Holger Jeromin wrote:

webgour schrieb am 10.06.2008 17:01:
I'm having difficulty using attachEvent instead of simply assigning to
mouseover in my object Sample03. When i use myImage.onmouseover =
this.showmouseover(); in the following all works fine, if I replace it by
myImage.attachEvent('onmouseover',this.showmouseov er()); I get for the
alert(this.id) "undefined" and not "gwlogo"

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_advanced.html

"The event handling function is referenced, not copied, so the this
keyword always refers to the window and is completely useless."

See also:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archi...nt_consid.html


PointedEars
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On Jun 11, 1:44 am, Holger Jeromin <news03_2... (AT) katur (DOT) de> wrote:

webgour schrieb am 10.06.2008 17:01:

I'm having difficulty using attachEvent instead of simply assigning to
mouseover in my object Sample03. When i use myImage.onmouseover =
this.showmouseover(); in the following all works fine, if I replace it by
myImage.attachEvent('onmouseover',this.showmouseov er()); I get for the
alert(this.id) "undefined" and not "gwlogo"

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_advanced.html

"The event handling function is referenced, not copied, so the this
keyword always refers to the window and is completely useless."

The line above that on Quirksmode is not quite correct, it says (in
regard to the IE event model):

"Events always bubble, no capturing possibility."


When it should say:

"Events *only* bubble..."


Not all events bubble, and some events that bubble in other browsers
do not bubble in IE (such as the change event for form elements).


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Rob