On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:57 PM, cc <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-11-21 10:26, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hello GM'ers: >> >> I'm having a funny problem with this.getAttribute. Here's a couple of >> code snippets: >> >> function doWhatever() { >> def=this.getAttribute('id'); >> } >> >> This, as expected, assigns the value of 'id' to def. >> >> function doWhatever(abc) { >> abc ? def=abc : def=this.getAttribute('id'); >> } >> >> If abc is present, this assigns abc to def; but if abc is absent, it >> assigns [objectXPCNativeWrapper[objectMouseEvent]] to def (the >> this.getAttribute comes from a mouse click on the element with the >> 'id' attribute). > Is this function an event handler, registered with addEventListener? If > so, then I suspect that abc is not actually absent, but is being > populated with the event parameter. Try adding an additional (first) > parameter to catch the event and do whatever with it -- e.g. > > function doWhatever(evt, abc) { > > For example, you could use evt.target.id instead of this.getAttribute, I > think.
I bet you're right. I'll mess around with it some more and see if I can fix it. Thanks. pw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=.
