You needed to search further: (searched Google with "createEvent javascript")
http://www.itworld.com/nl/javascript/05072002/ But you may find it will only work with IE. Regards, Gary On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:20:51 -0500, berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that the list is dedicated to CSS but as Standard Group I > presume someone can answer my DOM question. > > I search evrywhere on the web, I read books, I make many test using the w3c > specification and the fireFox information but It seems that it is > impossible to be done. > As I know that people on this list are usually very uptodate with standard > and w3c specification maybe someone has the answer > > I am trying to create an Event to add it to a html tag. I thought that the > answer was createEvent("MouseEvents") but it was not the case. createEvent > doesn't work the same way as a createElement. It simulate an event but > don't write the event. > > What I am looking for is a function wich has the ability to write the event > as such: > el=CreateEvent ("mousedown") > el.eventFunction="abc(z,y,x)" > HTMLelement("mydiv").append(el) > > and the result must be as such <div id="mydiv" onmousedown="abc(x,y,z)"> > </div> > > addEventListener doesn't help me because we can not add the function > (this) and if we made a save of the complete page we see that the event was > not written. In the case of createElement the object would have been > written in the page. The other problem with addEventListener, it executes > once we call it. > > I know that for the Java DOM there is object.setEvent("onclick", "abc(this") > ) > > would someone have an Idea > > Thanks in advance > > happy hollidays > > Berry > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
