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at December 2, 2009 11:38 by nivlam


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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> 
<head>
	<title>Javascript Event Delegation Test</title>
	
	<style type="text/css">
	body { 
		padding: 10px;
	}
	table {
		border: solid 1px black;
	}
	table td {
		padding: 3px;
	}
	</style>
	
	<script type="text/javascript"> 	
		window.onload = function() {
			// Old
			var rows = document.getElementById("old").getElementsByTagName("tr");
			for (var i = 0, ln = rows.length; i < ln; ++i) {
				rows[i].onclick = function() {
					alert("Row Index: " + this.rowIndex);
				}
			}
		
			// New
			function getTarget(x){
					x = x || window.event;
					return x.target || x.srcElement;
			}
		
			document.getElementById("new").onclick = function(e) {
				var root = this;
				var t = getTarget(e);
				
				while (t != root) {
					if (t.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "tr") {
						alert("Row Index: " + t.rowIndex);
						break;
					}
					
					t = t.parentNode;
				}
			};
		};
	</script>
</head>

<body>

	<strong>To test: Click on a table row.</strong>

	<h3>Attaching event to each row:</h3>
	<table id="old">
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
	
	<h3>Attaching event to table:</h3>
	<table id="new">
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>One</td>
			<td>Two</td>
			<td>Three</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
	
</body>
 
</html>

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Javascript event delegation

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JavaScript