120522 - HTML Event SPAN onclick handler does not fire

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

HTML Event SPAN onclick handler does not fire
DOM 2 Event SPAN onclick handler fires

Steps to reproduce:

Create a SPAN containing a text node
Assign a click event handler to an HTML Span Element via elm.onclick = handler;
Click on the text contained in the SPAN.

Expected results:
click handler fires

Actual results:
click handler does not fire.

Reproducible:
Everytime

Note:

If you used the DOM 2 Event method elm.addEventListener to add the event handler
to the SPAN, then the handler will fire when the SPAN is clicked.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: event property dump script

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: event handler script, plus other junk

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: SPAN onclick HTML Event handler

Does not fire click handler in 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: SPAN onclick DOM Event handler

Does fire click handler in 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Um, isn't |object.onclick = 'doevent';| supposed to be |object.onclick =
doevent;| (i.e. no quotes around |doevent|)? :-)

This testcase works:

<html>
<body>
<span id='s'>SPAN Tag</span>
<script>
function foo()
{
  alert('foo');
}
document.getElementById('s').onclick = foo;
</script>
</body>
</html>

Marking WORKSFORME, please reopen if there's more to this than what I've seen...

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

doh. my bad.