Question

I have the following method I want to run on a onclick event:

function dostuff(evt) {
       var currentTarget = evt.currentTarget;
       // do more stuff
    }

On my link, I add the onclick event the following way:

 link.Attributes.Add("onclick", "dostuff()");

However, then the evt parameter is null in my above example. I want to parse the click event to the JavaScript function, so I can get the currentTarget, srcElement etc.

How do I add that on my onclick event?

Answer 1

Make your onclick attribute like this:

link.Attributes.Add("onclick", "dostuff.call(this, event)");

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• this in the function will be the bound element,

• the event object will be passed along

• it works both in standards browsers as well as IE8 and lower (including the event object being passed)