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Satinder Singh
Satinder Singh

Reputation: 307

How can we pass an element to event handler in javascript

I have created an <input> HTML element using Javascript. Now I want to add an onblur event handler to this element dynamically. However I do not understand how I can pass the created element as an argument to the function. Here's my code:

element = document.createElement("input");
element.onblur = hello_function;

In the above code you can see that the element is created. Now I want to pass that element to hello_function. How can I do that?

function hello_function(element) {
    alert(element);
}

Upvotes: 10

Views: 1235

Answers (3)

Kevin Kloet
Kevin Kloet

Reputation: 1086

i suggest to use addEventListener, also i think you need to append the created element to the document, something like this:

var elem = document.createElement("input");
if (elem) {
  elem.addEventListener('blur', hello_function, false);
}
document.body.append(elem);
function hello_function(element) {
  alert(element);
}

Upvotes: 1

prasanth
prasanth

Reputation: 22500

try like this. passing the another variable into a function,

var something="hello";
var element = document.createElement("input");
  element.addEventListener('blur' , function ()
                           {
    hello_function(something);
  
  })
 document.body.appendChild(element)

 function hello_function (element){
      alert(element);
}

Upvotes: 1

Rory McCrossan
Rory McCrossan

Reputation: 337656

To achieve this you can wrap the hello_function call in an anonymous function wrapper and provide the this argument:

element = document.createElement("input");
element.addEventListener('blur', function() {
  hello_function(this);
});
document.body.appendChild(element);

function hello_function(element) {
  console.log(element);
}

Also note the preferred use of addEventListener over onblur.

Upvotes: 9

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