Aleem,
2008/11/5 Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> FWIW, adding an onclick is not the preferred way of doing this. It's better
>>> to attach events to anchors during document.onload event. If anchors need to
>>> be filtered, dom/css classes can be used.
>>
>>
>> Sounds interesting, care to share a little more about this method?
>>
>>
> There are some good Javascript APIs out there for providing interesting,
> cross-browser functionality. Prototype (prototypejs.org), jQuery and YUI
> are popular ones I can think of. Under jQuery you would have:
> $('a.outlink).click(function() { ... }
>
> which finds anchors with class name outlink and attaches an onclick event
> thus abstracting a lot of the JS tediousness. I actually managed to write up
> a pretty cool Web 2.0 Scrabble game while exploring Prototype.js
> http://aleembawany.com/yabble/
>
> Google for jQuery or Prototype getting started tutorials. You should be
> looking to do away with any and all JS in your markup just like you would do
> with CSS.
>
>
Thanks for that. I was interested as I was about to try using jQuery for
another project...
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