How do I bind a click to an anchor without a framework (javascript)

Question

I know this is easily done in jQuery or any other framework, but that\'s not really the point. How do I go about \'properly\' binding a click event in pure javascript? I kno

Answer 1

This is a nice cross-browser method

var on = (function(){
    if ("addEventListener" in window) {
        return function(target, type, listener){
            target.addEventListener(type, listener, false);
        };
    }
    else {
        return function(object, sEvent, fpNotify){
            object.attachEvent("on" + sEvent, function(){
                fpNotify(window.event);
            });
        };
    }
}());


on(document.getElementById("myAnchor"), "click", function(){
    alert(this.href);
});