No, it won't work like that. Try ...
var item = document.getElementById ('foo');
item.onclick = function () { alert ('bar'); }
Matt
Anthony Ettinger 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
>
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