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document.getElementById('d<wbr />ivID').onc<wbr />lick = someFunction();
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document.getElementById('divID').onclick = someFunction();

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another example:<br />
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var el = document.getElementById('f<wbr />oo');<br />
el.onclick = showPopup;<br />
//NOTE: showPopup();<br />
//or showPopup(param);<br />
//will NOT work here.<br />
//Must be a reference to a function,<br />
//not a function call.<br />
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function showPopup() {<br />
&nbsp; var popup = window.open(this.href, &quot;popup&quot;, &quot;height=800,width=600&quot;);<br />
&nbsp; popup.focus();<br />
&nbsp; return false;<br />
}<br />

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another example:

var el = document.getElementById('foo');
el.onclick = showPopup;
//NOTE: showPopup();
//or showPopup(param);
//will NOT work here.
//Must be a reference to a function,
//not a function call.

function showPopup() {
  var popup = window.open(this.href, "popup", "height=800,width=600");
  popup.focus();
  return false;
}


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but how can i do el.onclick = showPopup(this) &nbsp;
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but how can i do el.onclick = showPopup(this)  

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how can i attach onclick=&quot;someFunction(this<wbr />)&quot; to a div through javascript? &nbsp;how can i de attach it? &nbsp;thanks
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how can i attach onclick="someFunction(this)" to a div through javascript?  how can i de attach it?  thanks

attaching and detaching onclick=somefunction(this) to a div dynamically

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.