Re: Dynamically created select not firing events in IE, works in other browses

tapuleo said the following on 7/22/2007 3:08 PM:
I'm creating a select tag, with options on the fly, and the events
(onclick, onchange, onkeydown) are not firing at all in Internet
Explorer. I tried IE 6 and 7...no luck. This all works fine in
Firefox.

Is there some trick to getting this to work in IE? Here's a short
example. If you click the button, the select (listbox) appears, but
no events fire.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

Why are you trying to get IE to parse a document that it inherently doesn't recognize? Use HTML4.01 strict and forget XHTML.

sel.setAttribute("id","wsrListBox");
sel.setAttribute("size","10");

sel.id = "wsrListBox"
sel.size = 10;


// try to set event ***NEVER FIRES in IE***
sel.setAttribute("onclick","alert(1);");

sel.onclick = function() { alert(1)};

setAttribute is known to be buggy in IE.

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