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I am finding that <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test')"></input>
does not seem to work properly on IE7.

http://www.aarongray.org/Test/JavaScript/checkbox.html

It works fine on FF and Google Chrome.

Any suggestions ?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

On Oct 30, 3:17*pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am finding that <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test')"></input>
> does not seem to work properly on IE7.

Use the click event with checkboxes. I think you will find that in
some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.

"David Mark" <> wrote in message
news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-...
>On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
>> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
>> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>
>Use the click event with checkboxes. I think you will find that in
>some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.

Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?

<input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>

Is always giving 'on'.

Thanks,

Aaron

On 30 Ott, 20:26, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-...
>
> >On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
> >> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
> >> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>
> >Use the click event with checkboxes. *I think you will find that in
> >some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.
>
> Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?
>
> * * <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>
>
> Is always giving 'on'.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron

simply put a value attribute on it


<input type="checkbox" value ="some_value" onclick="alert('test' +
this.value)"></input>

Bye

On Oct 30, 3:35*pm, xdevel1999 <xdevel1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 Ott, 20:26, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-....
>
> > >On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
> > >> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
> > >> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>
> > >Use the click event with checkboxes. *I think you will find that in
> > >some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.
>
> > Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?
>
> > * * <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>
>
> > Is always giving 'on'.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Aaron
>
> simply put a value attribute on it

What on earth are you talking about?

On Oct 30, 3:26*pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-...
>
> >On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
> >> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
> >> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>
> >Use the click event with checkboxes. *I think you will find that in
> >some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.
>
> Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?
>
> * * <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>
>
> Is always giving 'on'.

Perhaps you meant onclick above? Also, the checked property is likely
what you are after. Do you really care about the value?

"David Mark" <> wrote in message
news:ddfd4e46-7d08-4913-848c-...
On Oct 30, 3:26 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-...
>>
>> >On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
>> >> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
>> >> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>>
>> >Use the click event with checkboxes. I think you will find that in
>> >some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus.
>>
>> Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?
>>
>> <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>
>>
>> Is always giving 'on'.

>Perhaps you meant onclick above?

Yes, sorry

>Also, the checked property is likely what you are after.

Ah, got that

>Do you really care about the value?

No.

Thanks alot David,

Aaron

On Oct 30, 4:15*pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ddfd4e46-7d08-4913-848c-...
> On Oct 30, 3:26 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >> "David Mark" <dmark.cins...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:2a2d567a-f2c2-4b33-aa84-....
>
> >> >On Oct 30, 3:17 pm, "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I am finding that <input type="checkbox"
> >> >> onchange="alert('test')"></input>
> >> >> does not seem to work properly on IE7.
>
> >> >Use the click event with checkboxes. I think you will find that in
> >> >some browsers the change event fires only after the input loses focus..
>
> >> Okay great 'onclick' works but how do Iget the checkbox'es value ?
>
> >> <input type="checkbox" onchange="alert('test' + this.value)"></input>
>
> >> Is always giving 'on'.
> >Perhaps you meant onclick above?
>
> Yes, sorry
>
> >Also, the checked property is likely what you are after.
>
> Ah, got that
>
> >Do you really care about the value?
>
> No.
>
> Thanks alot David,
>

No problem. One caveat though. It seems to me that there is at least
one old version of Mac IE that will not work as expected. My memory
is fuzzy on this though. I remember consulting on a project a few
years ago that did something like this:

function mycheckboxclick() {
if (isMacIE) {
someglobalflag = this.checked;
} else {
someglobalflag = !this.checked;
}
}

This is madness of course (first thing I did was change the global
flag to a function that returned the present value of the checked
property.) The "reasoning" for the above logic was that a unit test
failed in Mac IE and this hack "fixed" it. This is the same brain-
dead methodology used by Prototype, jQuery, etc. You can probably
imagine my ultimate recommendation (throw the bums out.)