srcElement in IE = what in Netscape?

"Dan" <hg*****@dfgd.rf> writes:

When i click down with the mouse, i want to be sure that the image "myimg"
is clicked before doing something. With IE i use 'srcElement' and it works:
The official name is "target". Also, there is no "window.event" in
Mozilla/Netscape, that is a Microsoft invention as well.
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown="downtest()"> <script>
<script type="text/javascript">

The type attribute is mandatory.
function downtestIE() Try:

function downtest(event) {
event = event || window.event; // IE doesn't pass event as argument.
var tgt = event.target || event.srcElement; // IE doesn't use .target
var strid = tgt.id;
if (strid=="myimg")
{ etc ...

/L
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Thanks for replying...
I tried different ways about this and maybe you can help me understand some
differences:
1) this works ('ev' is used instead of 'event')
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" >
<script type="text/javascript">
var ev;
lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(ev)
{
var strid = ev.target.id;
alert(strid)
}
lap.onmousedown=downtest // WHY NOT
lap.onmousedown=downtest(ev) ??
</script>

2) this works too ('event' used)
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown=downtest(event)>
<script type="text/javascript">
lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(event)
{
var strid = event.target.id;
alert(strid)
}
</script>

3) this doesn't work: why can 'event' not be replaces by 'ev'? error= ev has
no properties
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown=downtest(ev)>
<script type="text/javascript">
var ev;
lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(ev)
{
var strid = ev.target.id;
alert(strid)
thanks for your time
Dan

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"Dan" <hg*****@dfgd.rf> writes:

When i click down with the mouse, i want to be sure that the image "myimg" is clicked before doing something. With IE i use 'srcElement' and it

works:
The official name is "target". Also, there is no "window.event" in
Mozilla/Netscape, that is a Microsoft invention as well.

<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown="downtest()">

<script>

<script type="text/javascript">

The type attribute is mandatory.

function downtestIE()

Try:

function downtest(event) {
event = event || window.event; // IE doesn't pass event as argument.
var tgt = event.target || event.srcElement; // IE doesn't use .target
var strid = tgt.id;

if (strid=="myimg")
{ etc ...

/L
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Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

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"Dan" <no@mail.xy> writes:

Please don't top-post.

I tried different ways about this and maybe you can help me understand some differences:

1) this works ('ev' is used instead of 'event')
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" >
<script type="text/javascript">
var ev;

This (global) variable declaration is not necessary. The (local) function
parameter overshadows it inside the function, and you never assign

anything to the global variable.

lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(ev)
{
var strid = ev.target.id;
alert(strid)
}
lap.onmousedown=downtest // WHY NOT

Why not what? It looks absolutely correct, although I would end my
sentences with a semicolon. Mostly because I find it more readable.

lap.onmousedown=downtest(ev) ??

This is not what you want. You don't want to call the function now
and assigne the result (which is "undefined" since there is no return
statment in it) to "lap.onmousedown".

If you have both of these lines, the latter overwrites the former,
which might be why you don't see the result.

</script>

2) this works too ('event' used)
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown=downtest(event)>

You should have quotes around the "onmousedown" attribute value,
since it contains "(" and ")". In practice, it is easier to always
put quotes around than to worry which charaters are legal and
which aren't.

You call the "downtest" function with the value of the "event"
variable. The javascript code in the onmousedown attribute value is
evaluated in a context, where "event" refers to the current event
(probably why Microsoft decided to just have one global event
variable). The *value* of the variable "event" is used as argument
to the downtest function.

<script type="text/javascript">
lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(event)

The name of the function argument is irrelevant, you can call it "ev",
"event", "foo" or even "body" without affecting how this function works.
A function argument is local to the function, so
---
var x=4;
function foo(x){
x=2;
return x;
}
foo(12);
alert(x);
---
will alert "4". The variable "x" outside the function and the one inside
are two different variables, and the following is *completely* equivalent:
---
var x=4;
function foo(y){
y=2;
return y;
}
foo(12);
alert(x);
---
(in programming language theory, that is a well known concept: renaming
of "bound" variables doesn't change the behavior of the program).

{
var strid = event.target.id;
alert(strid)
}
</script>

3) this doesn't work: why can 'event' not be replaces by 'ev'? error= ev has no properties
<IMG ID="myimg" SRC="bugs.gif" onMouseDown=downtest(ev)>

Here the code "downtest(ev)" is executed in an environment where
there is a variable, called "event", referring to the current event.
The "ev" variable is the one you declare below, and it only contains
"undefined".

<script type="text/javascript">
var ev;
lap=document.getElementById("myimg")
function downtest(ev)
{
var strid = ev.target.id;

That means that at this point, the local variable (also called "ev")
has the value "undefined", and you can't find the property "target"
of a value that is "undefined".

/L
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Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'