[Javascript] Evaluating an element in a function declaration, not at run time.

[Ian Skinner]

Hopefully this is an easy one, but I'm not sure how to describe it concise enough to Google.
 
I have the following bit of JavaScript:
 
node.childNodes[0].onclick=function()
{
       showHideAllDivs
      (
            navRoot.parentNode.id,
            this.innerHTML.replace(/[^A-Za-z]/g,""),
            this.id
      );
      return false;
} [white space modified for e-mail]
 
This dynamically assigns a function call to the onClick event of several anchor tags for some DHTML shenanigans.  
 
The trouble is that the first parameter of the showHideAllDivs() function needs to be the value of navRoot.parentNode.id at the time of this assignment (navRoot is initialized before this code), but instead the event is being created with the navRoot.parentNode.id value un-resolved and it is being resolved at runtime when the anchors are clicked on.  Unfortunately it is then the wrong value and I get errors that I spent a very long time tracking down to this cause.
 
There has got to be a way to write this to say use the value of navRoot.parentNode.id right now, not wait until later to resolve the value?
 
TIA
 
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Ian Skinner
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BloodSource
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