Question

I have the same code for keyup and keydown events, is there any way that I can pass the element to the function so I can call it like element.addEvent('keyup',function(event,element)); on both instead of having to have an inline function?

Answer 1

You can use event.target to get the element I believe

window.addEvent('domready', function(){
    $('yourInputField').addEvents({
       'keyup': alertValue,
       'keydown': alertValue
    });
});

function alertValue(event){
    alert(event.target.value);
}