setAttribute, onClick and cross browser compatibility

Question

I have read a number of posts about this but none with any solid answer. Here is my code:

// button creation
onew = document.createElement(\'input\');
onew.         


        

Answer 1

Use the addEventListener() function with "click" for the type argument for Mozilla-based browsers, and attachEvent() function with "onclick" as the sEvent argument for IE; I find it best to use a try/catch statement, for example:

try {
  onew.attachEvent("onclick", //For IE
                   function(){fnDisplay_Computers("'" + alines[i] + "'"); });
}
catch(e) {
  onew.addEventListener("click", //For Mozilla-based browsers
                   function(){fnDisplay_Computers("'" + alines[i] + "'"); },
                   false);
}