Event trapping

[Dave "Crash" Dummy]

I have a table that contains 248 identical cells, differing only by the
enclosed text:

<td onMouseover="style.color='red'"
onMouseout="style.color='black'"
onClick="slashadd(this.innerText)">[string]</td>

The idea is to have the cell act like a hyperlink, with a "hover" color.
It works fine as shown, but is bulky. Is there some way I can use a single
script function to remotely capture and act on events in multiple cells?
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Crash

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[Mayayana]

You can do something like this:

Sub DoHover()
window.event.srcElement.style.color = "#FF0000"
End Sub

Sub UnHover()
window.event.srcElement.style.color = "#000000"
End Sub

.....<TD onmouseover="DoHover()" onmouseout="UnHover()"......


You can also do something like this:

Sub document_onmouseover()
If window.event.srcElement.tagName = "TD" Then
window.event.srcElement.style.color = "#FF0000"
End If
End Sub

But personally I prefer to use classes and IDs:

Sub document_onmouseover()
If window.event.srcElement.className = "TD248" Then
window.event.srcElement.style.color = "#FF0000"
End If
End Sub

Sub document_onmouseout()
If window.event.srcElement.className = "TD248" Then
window.event.srcElement.style.color = "#000000"
End If
End Sub


.... with something like this:

<TABLE><TR><TD Class="TD248"></TD>
<TD Class="TD248"></TD>
<TD Class="TD248"></TD>
<TD Class="TD248"></TD>

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[Dave "Crash" Dummy]

Thank you! I knew there was a way, but I was fuzzy on the nomenclature.
I've added your letter to my "snippets" collection.

In this instance, I could have used Plan B because it applied to all TD
elements, but opted for Plan C for added versatility. I also added this:

Sub document_onclick()
If window.event.srcElement.className = "slash" Then
call slashadd(window.event.srcElement.innerText)
End If
End Sub

My table cells are reduced to <td class="slash">
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Crash

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