setEvent

Assigns the HTML event handler.

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Syntax

obj.setEvent(name, value);

Parameters

name (string) - event name
value (string or function) - event handler function

Example

obj.setEvent("onclick", myClickHandler);

<script> function myClickHandler(event){ alert(this.getTag()); } var obj = new AW.HTML.INPUT; obj.setEvent("onclick", myClickHandler); document.write(obj); </script>

Remarks

It is possible to pass a literal javascript code (string) as the value parameter. In this case the code will be simply put into the html attribute -

obj.setEvent("onclick", "alert(this.id)");

It will produce -

<div id="aw123" onclick="alert(this.id)" >...</div>

But more often the value parameter is an event handler function.

obj.setEvent("onclick", function(event){...});

In this case AW will catch the event, find the original AW object and call the event handler as a method of this object with the event as an argument.

See also

getEvent() method