[thelist] NS6 : how locate event trigger element?

[Mark Cheng]

http://members.evolt.org/MarkC/linkevent.htm

Don't ask me why, but I am trying to use JS and DOM to put the title
associated with each <a> link into the status bar when you mouseover the
link.   I wrote a function to attach onmouseover events to all links.  Then,
when the user mouseovers the link, I pull the link object, get it's title
and write that to the status bar.

The above page works fine in ie5 up because window.event.srcElement returns
the appropriate A object.

It doesn't work in NS6 because event.target is returning the text object
within the A element (ie the visible link).  I need to get to the
parentnode, but event.target.parentnode doesn't include all of the A
attributes.  event.currentTarget has the same problem as
event.target.parentnode.

So, is there any way to select the relevant <a> parent,
i)without having to loop through all <a> tags to find one with the
appropriate child? and
ii) without having to name all the links individually?

TIA

Mark Cheng
Financial Controller
Ranger Minerals Ltd
Phone 08 9364 8355


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