Why is my onclick event not registered in Firefox?

Question

I have a list item with an onclick event. It runs in Chrome and Internet Explorer, but not Firefox. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

In Firefox, the event object is not global. You have to access it within your script tags not in html.

onclick works likes this

<li id="alert">test<br></li>

<script>
  document.getElementById("alert").addEventListener("click", function( event ) {
    alert('test');
  }, false);
</script>

Answer 2

Attributes can be ignored by Firefox when it is served invalid HTML, use https://validator.w3.org/ to clean up the HTML.

Answer 3

This works fine for me in Firefox.

Check this:

1. JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

2. Try adding a return false; statement in your tag.

Or a function like this:

function test() {
    //your code here
    return false;
}

1. Or use this:

<a href="#" onclick="alert('hi');">Link</a>

or this

<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="alert('hi');">Link</a>

Answer 4

I was trying to minimize my html code to send a complete code to simulate the error as Boris Zbarsky requested. Then I found my mistake.

I was using marquee tag which has been deprecated. Now I am going to use jQuery instead of it.

thx