onclick event fires before button clicked - javascript
I have a pop up window with a button. When I click the button I want something to happen, say an alert. The issue I am having is that the onclick event fires as soon as the popup is launched and not when the button is clicked. Here is the code. Any thoughts will be much appreciated. var popup = open("", "Popup", "width=300,height=200"); var btn = popup.document.createElement("button"); btn.style.height = "50px"; btn.style.width = "150px"; popup.document.body.appendChild(btn); btn.innerHTML="button1"; btn.onclick = alert("hello"); In your code btn.onclick = alert("hello"); onclick is not fired.