Comments on: Fixing IE's .attachEvent(..) failures

By: Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Mouseenter and mouseleave events for Firefox (and other non-IE browsers)

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:56:12 +0000

[...] if we merged it with the xb.addEventListener(..) function that was described in the blog entry Fixing IE's .attachEvent(..) Failures. For the sake of brevity though, I chose not to do that [...]

By: Stephen Stchur

Stephen Stchur — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:39:56 +0000

@Alec: Glad it worked for you. Be sure to check out the Ultimate addEvent function too.

By: Alec McGail

Alec McGail — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:33:05 +0000

This was just what i needed to get my website up and running. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

By: Branislav Kalas

Branislav Kalas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:32:41 +0000

Thank you so much!!!!! Right before commiting suicide

By: sstchur

sstchur — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:46:18 +0000

No problem Scott! Glad it worked out for you.

BTW, I just posted a new entry, which is related to this one (the Ultimate addEvent function). You might want to check it out as it has a number of improvements over the version offered here.

The Ultimate addEvent function

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:54:13 +0000

Thanks mate for this amazing script. You've really saved my life here, and saved me a lot of future stuffing around.

By: truthblue82

truthblue82 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:56:08 +0000

Many thanks! I am finding the same script. Your code is usefull.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:08:08 +0000

Thank you so much for this. Currently in a place where I can't use jQuery and this has just saved my Fridat afternoon!

By: jblast

jblast — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:17:04 +0000

Works like a charm . Thanks for writing it.

By: sstchur

sstchur — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:41:03 +0000

Sparky:

I too eventually became uncomfortable with the potentially large keys, so I actually modified the function as well. Only, the modified version never showed up on my blog. Instead, it became part of my javascript libary: Gimme.

You can view the source for Gimme's .addEvent(..) function, which does everything this function does, but also fixes a number of other IE issues:

Link to Gimme Source

That file is somewhat large; just search for the function: Gimme.ext.addEvent