Attribute onclick=”function()” not functioning as intended?

One of the many reasons not to use onxyz=”…”-style event handlers is that any functions you call from them must be globals. Your functions aren’t, they’re local to the window.onload callback. Instead, just assign the function reference directly, either somewhat old-fashioned: left.onclick = playerLeft; or using more modern techniques that allow for multiple handlers: left.addEventListener(“click”, … Read more

HTML anchor tag with Javascript onclick event

If your onclick function returns false the default browser behaviour is cancelled. As such: <a href=”http://www.google.com” onclick=’return check()’>check</a> <script type=”text/javascript”> function check() { return false; } </script> Either way, whether google does it or not isn’t of much importance. It’s cleaner to bind your onclick functions within javascript – this way you separate your HTML … Read more

Change value of input and submit form in JavaScript

You could do something like this instead: <form name=”myform” action=”action.php” onsubmit=”DoSubmit();”> <input type=”hidden” name=”myinput” value=”0″ /> <input type=”text” name=”message” value=”” /> <input type=”submit” name=”submit” /> </form> And then modify your DoSubmit function to just return true, indicating that “it’s OK, now you can submit the form” to the browser: function DoSubmit(){ document.myform.myinput.value=”1″; return true; } … Read more

jQuery – How can I temporarily disable the onclick event listener after the event has been fired?

There are a lot of ways to do it. For example: $(“.btnRemove”).click(function() { var $this = $(this); if ($this.data(“executing”)) return; $this .data(“executing”, true) .attr(“src”, “/url/to/ajax-loader.gif”); $.get(“/url/to/django/view/to/remove/item/” + this.id, function(returnedData) { // … do your stuff … $this.removeData(“executing”); }); }); or $(“.btnRemove”).click(handler); function handler() { var $this = $(this) .off(“click”, handler) .attr(“src”, “/url/to/ajax-loader.gif”); $.get(“/url/to/django/view/to/remove/item/” + this.id, … Read more