Thank you both for your responses. I have found a workaround for my
problem. This really drove me crazy though the solution is not that
complicated. I’m going to be somewhat long winded so others do not
have to go through this.
I know that calling events from within html is discouraged, my story
Just as a side measure that you are probably not aware of...
IE8 has a bug that when you do your new Element(td..,'class':'text'...
It will not add the class to IE8 browsers ... you need to use
addClassName('text'); after you insert it...
I found this out the hard way !
Alex Mcauley
This one was a SOB and as always, IE is at fault...
Here is what I found on researching this...
now this is for IE only of course..
var cell = new Element(td);
This is all well and good w/o any attributes, the Element constructor
delegates the attributes object, the second parameter to