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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: IE8 attachEvent problem
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:59:08 -0700
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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