Hi,

How does one attach an onclick even with arguments?

From the examples that I've been able to find online, they are just straight calls to the function. I want to be able to pass the string 'apple' in the example.. but it doesn't work..

function createTab(text)
{
  var nLink = document.createElement("a");
  nLink.href = "#";
  nLink.attachEvent('onclick',something('apple'));
}

function something(arg)
{
  alert (arg)
}

try nLink.onclick=function () { alert ("ok") };

That won't work, I'm trying to pass an argument to the function... alert the value was just an example, I will be doing other things...

The only way that I have it is by doing this:

document.createElement("<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"something('apple')\" ></a>");

But there has to be a better way of doing this!

It will work - of course you should replace alert ("ok") on something('apple'). Here the full text (I created a button to rise the event):

<input type=button onclick=createTab("test") value=click> </input>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function createTab(text)
{
  var nLink = document.createElement("a");
  nLink.href = "#";
  var oText = document.createTextNode(text);
// nLink.attachEvent('onclick',something('apple'));
  nLink.onclick=function () { something('apple') };
  nLink.appendChild(oText);
  document.body.appendChild(nLink);
}

function something(arg)
{
  alert (arg)
}

</script>