[thelist] setAttribute setting events

[Jeff Howden]

danny,

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> From: Danny Goodman
> 
> Since you want to pass a value along to the event
> handler function, you might think that you can't use
> parameterless event binding, but you can get what you
> want without too much effort:
> 
> elemReference.onmouseup = hideCharges;
> elemReference.setAttribute("nodeID", nNodeID);
> 
> Then, in your hideCharges() function, get the
> target/srcElement of the event and use
> getAttribute("nodeID") to retrieve the nNodeID value.
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too tricky.

relies on browser-specific methods at getting at the target/srcElement.

better to just use an anonymous function.

elemReference.onmouseup = function()
{
  hideCharges(nNodeID);
}

.jeff

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