IE onclick in link doesn't work

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Aron Schatz

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IE onclick in link doesn't work

Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:10:51 AM #19297 Perm Link

I have a div that I'm hiding until the link is clicked and then it will show. This works fine in Firefox, but not IE.

I have this snip of html

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<div id="test">
<a href="test.html" id="testlink">Testing</a>
</div>
<div id="openbox" class="hide">This should show</div>

I am using prototype.js for ease of use and for some ajaxy stuff later. Anyway, the class "hide" has display:none; and my goal is when the link is clicked, the openbox div will show. For this to happen I want to disable the link in javascript (NOT inline with the page).

This code I wrote works in Firefox, but not in IE. In IE, it follows the link instead of being disabled.

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I'm sure I have something wrong or some things could be made better.

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Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:13:57 AM #19349 Perm Link

As it turns out, IE completely disregards the last return statement and only cares about the first.

In my case, the pointerX and pointerY functions of prototype returned a non-false answer and IE says "Link works!"

If I take the code from those two functions and put them inline, the function works as expected. For now, this is fine.

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function enhancesite()
{
var link=$('testlink');
link.onclick =function(e){
showhidepointer($('openbox'),e.pageX || (e.clientX +
(document.documentElement.scrollLeft || document.body.scrollLeft)),e.pageY || (e.clientY +
(document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop)));
return false;}
}

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Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:39:21 AM #19350 Perm Link

In response to Aron Schatz #19349

Spoke to soon. Here is how I fixed it. Something with IE's events are messed up. Anyone know why?