Question

I’m trying to unbind all events from a handler with out using a framework, is this correct? They’re both Divs and those are the ids, it just doesn’t seem to work.

function reply_click(d_850)
{
    document.getElementById("directions").onsubmit = null;
}

Answer 1

No. There’s removeEventListener (and detachEvent in IE), but they need explicit references to the functions they should remove. There is no catch-all mechanism. You’d need to store all bound functions separately for a remove-all-of-type-X method when adding them, this is what jQuery does for example.

The only chance left is to rebuild your DOM, which removes all previously bound handlers entirely.