[Javascript] IE onclick problem

[tedd]

At 7:50 PM +0100 4/18/08, David Dorward wrote:
>On 18 Apr 2008, at 18:48, tedd wrote:
>>>    <script type="text/javascript">
>>>    window.onload=function() {
>>>      var form=document.getElementById('someform');
>>>      if (form) form.onsubmit = checkMyForm;
>>>    }
>>>    </script>
>>
>>  Howard:
>>
>>  I spoke too soon -- take a look at this:
>>
>>  http://webbytedd.com/ccc/test-onsubmit1/index.php
>
>
>You have:
>		form.onsubmit = checkForm(form);
>
>So you are calling checkForm, with the the form as an argument, and 
>assigning the return value to onsubmit.
>
>The return value is going to be false (since the form isn't filled in 
>at load time), but it needs to be a function.
>
>		form.onsubmit = function (f) {
>				return function () {
>					checkForm(f)
>				};
>			}(form);
>
>Here I generate an anonymous function with one argument, and call it 
>with the form as the argument immediately. The return value (another 
>anonymous function, which calls checkForm when it is run) is assigned
>to onsubmit.

That still did not seem to work as it should -- unless I screwed up 
(most likely).

But, the code provided by Howard did work.

Thanks all.

tedd
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