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Re: Delete onload event handler initiated at img tag level?

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Martin Honnen wrote:

> Tuxedo wrote:
> 
> > For example, the following would repeat the replacement indefinitely as
> > the image is replacing itself with itself:
> >
> > function replace(){
> > document.getElementById("photo").src="pic2.jpg";
> > // delete onload???
> > }
> > <img src="pic1.jpg" onload="replace()" id="photo">
> >
> > Is there way to effectively remove the event while having the onload
> > event handler in the image tag as above so it only happens once?
> >
> > Maybe something like:
> > delete document.getElementById("photo").onload; // ???
> 
> I would use
> 
>    function replace(img, imgUrl) {
>      img.onload = null;
>      img.src = imgUrl;
>    }
> 
>    <img src="pic1.jpg" onload="replace(this, 'pic2.jpg');" alt="...">
> 
> 

Thanks for this neat solution, which can work similarly with 
getElementById() but not with 'this' keyword. Either way, no need for the 
delete operator.

Tuxedo

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Delete onload event handler initiated at img tag level? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2013-04-19 17:37 +0200
  Re: Delete onload event handler initiated at img tag level? Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-04-19 17:50 +0200
    Re: Delete onload event handler initiated at img tag level? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2013-04-19 21:09 +0200

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