Is it possible to append to innerHTML without destroying descendants' event listeners?

Question

In the following example code, I attach an onclick event handler to the span containing the text \"foo\". The handler is an anonymous function that pops up an <

Answer 1

As a slight (but related) asside, if you use a javascript library such as jquery (v1.3) to do your dom manipulation you can make use of live events whereby you set up a handler like:

 $("#myspan").live("click", function(){
  alert('hi');
});

and it will be applied to that selector at all times during any kind of jquery manipulation. For live events see: docs.jquery.com/events/live for jquery manipulation see: docs.jquery.com/manipulation