Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J.R." Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: How to set 'onKeyPress ...' programmatically ? Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:26:26 -0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <9np0guFpjtU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: edb3lPNLwDIT/BKKc/Xuzw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120118-1, 01/18/2012), Outbound message Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:10377 On 18/01/2012 20:47, Mel Smith wrote: > Hi: > > Enviro:>50 input text fields > > Question: How does one set _programmatically_ in javascript, the onKeyPress > event listener ?? > > I tried a couple of statements (something like el.onKeyPress = myfunction() > ; and "myfunction", etc, etc. > > Everything craps out and I don't know Where in my JavaScript Bible to look > for the answer ?? > > A Hint please ?? > > Thank you > Hi, You might use: el.onkeypress = myfunction; // neither onKeyPress nor myfunction() Take a look at MSDN to see more details: -- Joao Rodrigues (J.R.)