[thelist] Javascript onclick doesn't fire?

[Stephen Rider]

Hi --

I've been learning DOM scripting with Javascript with the help of a  
excellent book ("Dom Scripting" by Jeremy Keith)

With the goal of separating content from behavior, I've been removing  
hard-coded onclicks from various pages.  I have a page with a client- 
side imagemap (actually several, but I'll simplify for  
descriptions...) -- the various links on the imagemap link to JPGs.   
I've removed the hard-coded onload attributes in the imagemap's area  
tags, and now use DOM scripting to iterate through the area tags and  
add the appropriate onclicks on page load.

Works great in Firefox.  IE 6 acknowledges that the onclick attribute  
has been applied to the tags, but it doesn't actually "fire" when the  
link is clicked.

There's nothing wrong with the script the onclick points to.  It  
works fine in IE if I hard-code the onclick.  The code that adds the  
onclick attribute is working as well -- I know because I tested it  
using an alert that displays the content of the tag's onclick  
attribute. The alert pops up in IE, with the correct content, when  
the page loads.

But when I click on the links, the bare images come up, instead of  
the results of the javascript.

Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here?  Does IE  
ignore onclicks that are themselves written by javascript?

Here is one of the pages in question:
<http://tinyurl.com/rtryv>

And example of the onclick that is added:
onclick="openCamHR(360,270,640,480,this.href,'View 1 - ' + this.alt);  
return false;"

Works in Firefox.
Works in IE 6 when hard-coded.
Doesn't even try when added via the DOM in IE 6 (it _is_ added, it  
just doesn't get triggered, apparently)

Thanks in advance!

Stephen Rider