[thelist] [js] Arg! No fireEvent() on IE5.0?

[Mark M]

Jeff - 

Sorry, I must have been unclear, because that misses the point completely.

I need to be able to programatically fire an onChange event within a script.

Hence using fireEvent in the first place.

This is the situation - I've got 3 select boxs.

when 1st one changes - it changes values in the 2nd one
when the 2nd one changes, it makes changes to the 3rd.

1, and 2 have onChange handlers to do this...

so what should happen is: 

1 gets clicked, on change fires, which changes 2, 2 onChange fires, which then 
changes 3.

Now - just by fiddeling with the objects collection within the select doesn't make 
the 'onChange' fire - hence the need for fireEvent.

Does that make more sense?


> Jeff Howden <jeff at jeffhowden.comrote:
> 
> 
> mark,
> 
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > From: Mark M
> >
> > Had a fireEvent("onchange") happening on a select box
> > with no issues.
> >
> > That was, until a user with IE 5.0 came along.
> >
> > Little did I realise that firevent didn't get
> > implemented until 5.5.
> >
> > So!
> >
> > Anyone know a way I can let off a 'onChange' event
> > without calling 'fireEvent'?
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> 
> short of the obvious:  <select onchange="myFoo()"> ???
> 
> if not, what about:
> 
> oSelect = document.getElementById('mySelect');
> oSelect.onchange = function()
> {
>   myFoo();
> }
> 
> alternatively, you could change your function to not really on the
> event
> object (i'm assuming that's the need for the fireEvent() function).
> 
> more details please.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> .jeff
> 
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