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November 28, 1999 - Multiple-Statement Event Handlers

Yehuda Shiran November 28, 1999
Multiple-Statement Event Handlers
Tips: November 1999

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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An HTML event handler can consist of an entire script, but normally holds only one or two statements:

<BODY onLoad="foo1(); foo2();">

If you set an event handler in your script, it must be associated with a function reference. Therefore, it can only call one function:

window.onload = foo;

You can solve this issue by writing a simple function that calls other functions:

function foo() {
  foo1();
  foo2();
}