what's the difference between getAttribute and getAttributeNode?

[bobo]

Confusing ....
one more question here ...
can I take "onclick" as a attribute of some element so that I can use
removeAttribue to remove the event handler?

[chris feldmann]

A quick test reveals the answer is yes:
Document:

<a id="a" onclick='alert("hi");'>hi</a>

click, get "hi". Open a shell and go:

a = document.getElementById("a")
a.setAttribute("onclick", function(){return false;})

Click. Nothing.

[chris feldmann]

Ooops, not quite what you asked. Well, this works too:

a = document.getElementById("a")

a.removeAttribute("onclick")

[bobo]

Thanks chris.
So ... the question remain is:

what's the difference between getAttribute and getAttributeNode

[Dave Land]

If I RTFD (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:element) properly,
getAttribute returns the *value* of the attribute and getAttributeNode
returns an Attr node...

HTML:

<a id="a" onclick='alert("hi");'>hi</a>

Script:

a = document.getElementById("a");

a.getAttribute("onclick");
--> alert("hi")

a.getAttributeNode("onclick");
--> Attr:
localName = onclick
nodeValue = alert("hi")
nodeName = onclick

Try it in FireBug!

Dave

[bobo]

Thanks

[Arvid Jakobsson]

Recently I tried to remove the onkeydown eventlistener on a page's body.
Seems like
document.body.removeAttribute('onkeydown');
didn't work at all, but
document.body.setAttribute('onkeydown', function(){return false;});
worked just fine. Strange.

On 12/11/06, bobo <bobo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks