Is there a way to take the current target of an event with IE 7 or 8?
With other browser (firefox, opera, chrome etc.) we can use
event.currentTarget or also we can use the this keyword to
refer to the object processing the event.
But in Internet Explorer we don't have currentTarget property and the this refers to window object!
So how can I do that?
You can do something like
target = (event.currentTarget) ? event.currentTarget : event.srcElement;
Although as @Marc mentioned you can use a JQuery framework that normalizes the event for you.
I had similar problem. I solved it using keyword this as stated in an article on brainjar.com
To get the equivalent of the currentTarget property in IE, use the this keyword as an argument when setting the event handler in a tag.
...
function myHandler(event, link) { ... }
On the same page you can find the following table :
I'm assuming that you're wanting to use the 'this' context because the same handler will be dealing with multliple posible objects. In that case, see the excellent AddEvent script from the quirksmode recoding contest. (http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/09/addevent_recodi.html). This code has allowed me to get the very last of my javascript out of html. More importantly, it seems to work on all of the browsers that I've tested. Simple and compact.