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Re: IE8 attachEvent problem

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Martin said:

>
> With both event APIs (MSHTML/IE as well as the W3C DOM) you need to pass 
> in a function object that you want to be called, not call a function. So 
> you need
>   window.addEventListener("load"
>     function() {
>       document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView();
>     },
>     false
>   );
> respectively
>   window.attachEvent("onload", function() { 
> document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView(); });
>
> On the other hand if your remember function is called onload then it 
> should suffice to simply call the scrollIntoView, as your current code 
> does anyway, only accidentally.
>
> So depending on when/where you execute the remember function, you might 
> not need to use addEventListener respectively attachEvent, you can simply 
> put your
>    document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView();
> in the remember function.
>

    Hi Martin:

    I'll print and study your response.

Thank you !

-Mel Smith

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IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 10:42 -0700
  Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-01-20 18:55 +0100
    Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 10:59 -0700
      Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 11:24 -0700
        Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-01-21 12:06 +0100
          Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-21 09:52 -0700
  Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-01-20 20:11 +0100
    Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 13:21 -0700
      Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2013-01-20 21:44 +0100
        Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-01-21 00:07 +0100
        Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 16:19 -0700
          Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-20 17:18 -0700
    Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-01-21 18:28 +0100
      Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-01-21 19:07 +0100
        Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-01-21 19:33 +0100
        Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-21 13:05 -0700
          Re: IE8 attachEvent problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-01-22 09:00 +0100
  Re: IE8 attachEvent problem Arty Effem <ignoring@mail.com> - 2013-01-23 13:49 -0800

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