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#5252 closed bug (invalid)
Opened September 16, 2009 08:47AM UTC
Closed September 24, 2009 03:18AM UTC
attr adding an event to an input field does not work in IE but does in Firefox
| Reported by: | johnH | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.4 |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.3.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Using $(":input").attr("onfocus","alert(this.id);"); to add an event action to an input field will work in Firefox but not in IE (version 8.0.6001). Please see attached example.
Is there a reason that you would want to do it this way instead of the event methodology in jQuery?
Here's how you should be doing it:
$(":input").focus(function(e) { alert(this.id); }); /* -- OR -- */ $(":input").bind('focus',function(e) { alert(this.id); });More information is available in the Events section of the documentation:
http://docs.jquery.com/Events