How does inline Javascript (in HTML) work?

Question

I know this is bad practice. Don\'t write code like this if at all possible.

Of course, we\'ll always find ourselves in situations where a clever snippet of inline

Answer 1

What the browser does when you've got

is to set the actual value of "onclick" to something effectively like:

new Function("event", "alert('Hi');");

That is, it creates a function that expects an "event" parameter. (Well, IE doesn't; it's more like a plain simple anonymous function.)