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

By: wes

wes — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:43:00 +0000

don't use attachEvent!
use an array of events instead for older IEs, because
attachEvent("load", a); attachEvent("load", b);
first is executed b, then a
with addEventListener first is executed a then b

By: » Solved: IE event – “this.parentNode.parentNode is null or not an object” @ nerd.

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:42:01 +0000

[...] it's can be overcome, but that involves a lot of code and I refuse in principle to do that much inelegant hacking for [...]

By: sstchur

sstchur — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:37:37 +0000

@Pink Duck: You might want to take a peek at this more recent post, which has an updated cross-browser addEvent function. That post also has a link to a zip download of the source. Cheers! sstchur

By: Pink Duck

Pink Duck — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:17:19 +0000

The key string for addEvent and removeEvent do not match because of a missing underscore in removeEvent.

Using addEvent and removeEvent for some reason also causes IE to not release large amounts of memory linked to Flash ActiveX.

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.