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this.title returning undefined

 
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Hi there,

When I click one of the cells of a table that I have on an HTML page, my javascript function is called.

One of the function's tasks is to assign the contents of the title attribute of whatever element was clicked to call the function, (in this case a table cell), to a variable.

I am using:



Whenever I test to see what has been assigned to the variable, I get 'undefined'. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Many thanks

Joe
 
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We are going to need to see more code than that.

If I had to guess, sounds like your scoping is off.

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Does the clicked element have a title attribute?
 
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Hi Eric,

Thanks for your reply. In order to isolate the problem, I made a separate html page and javascript script, I still get the same response. Here is my HTML:



And here is my javascript:



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Joe
 
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do this instead



and



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Indeed.

Carefully read this: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/this.html
 
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Hi Eric,

I implemented what you wrote and it's working great.

Thanks very much for your time, again. I appreciate it.

Regards

Joe
 
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This is one of the reasons that assigning click handlers in the HTML markup can trip you up. You might want to look into the concept of Unobtrusive JavaScript.
 
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