javascript to create a button with onclick

Question

I\'m trying to use javascript to create a button that has a onclick event that calls a function defined in the head that takes in as parameter a dom object relative to the

Answer 1

You can also use the built-in setAttrbute javascript function.

var newButton = document.createElement("button")
newButton.setAttribute("onclick", "blah(this.parentNode.value)")

Hope it will help

Answer 2

function createButton(context, func) {
    var button = document.createElement("input");
    button.type = "button";
    button.value = "im a button";
    button.onclick = func;
    context.appendChild(button);
}

window.onload = function() {
    createButton(document.body, function() {
        highlight(this.parentNode.childNodes[1]);
        // Example of different context, copied function etc
        // createButton(this.parentNode, this.onclick);
    });
};

Is that what you want?