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Identifying events with javascript functions registered

 
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We need to record all javascript events fired/registered against any HTML element on a form.
For example,if there is a SELECT element on a form,and there is a javascript function registered against the onchange event of the element,we need to shortlist the 'onchange' event.
How do we do this - is there some way to identify the events against which javascript functions have been registerd for any element - (either through IHTMLDocument interface or attachEvent DOM)
The purpose is to trigger that event programmatically - i.e we would populate the SELECT element and trigger the javascript 'onchange' event(or any other 'javascripted' event for that matter) through FireEvent.
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You would manually have to loop through all the elements and manually test if they contain that event handler.

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Thanks Eric.
By manual testing do you mean that we would actually have to fire the possible events on each element and check for the result?
 
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Hint: alert(typeof obj.onchange)

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alert(typeof(obj.on<any event> gives me 'object'.
 
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In fact type of on any event gives me 'object' - I even tried obj.onjunk!!
 
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