[Javascript] item.onclick = "alert('foo');";

[Mike Dougherty]

you are asking to have the alert() function evaluated and setting the result to the onclick method 
of the "item" object variable.  I think what you want to do is assign a function to that method, 
like this:  item.onclick = function(){ alert('foo'); }

ALSO:

function myfunction() { alert('foo'); }

item.onclick = myfunction;  /* assign the function "myfunction" to the onclick method */

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 15:01:34 -0800 (PST)
  Anthony Ettinger <apwebdesign at yahoo.com> wrote:
> this doesn't seem to work:
> 
> var item = document.getElementById('foo');
> item.onclick = "alert('foo');";
> 
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:element.onclick
> 
> Anthony Ettinger
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