Capturing information from clicks on unordered list.

[Jake]

I've hit a wall in my quest to figure out how to acquire attribute
data from an unordered list.

Here's what I'm doing:

I have a script that dynamically creates an unordered list as a
navigation menu.

The only way I can think of to get click information from this list is
if there is a specific set number of list items, and have click events
for each one.

Say a list of 10 items would mean 10 separate click event handlers.

20 list items would mean 20 event handlers.

This doesn't seem very elegant to me. But I'm a MooTools noob, so
perhaps there is a better way?

[Nathan White]

Check out event delegation.

http://www.mootools.net/docs/more/Element/Element.Delegation

[Steve Onnis]

How are you creating the list elements?

I would do it like this personally

http://mooshell.net/5GsWA/6

[אריה גלזר‎]

i am not sure why ou would need a specific number. can't you assign an event on item creation:
var item = new Element('li',{

'events':{

'click':function(){/*do something*/}

}

});

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אריה גלזר
052-5348-561
5561

[jiggliemon]

Yeah add the event to the element when it's created.

var item = new Element('li',{
'events':{
'click':function(){

return this.get('rel');
}
}
});

On Nov 22, 9:35 am, אריה גלזר <arieh.gla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i am not sure why ou would need a specific number. can't you assign an event
> on item creation:
> var item = new Element('li',{
> 'events':{
> 'click':function(){/*do something*/}}
> });
>
> -----------
> אריה גלזר
> 052-5348-561
> 5561
>