Set an event function from a string

[shadowayex]

I have a function where a user will pass in a string representation of an event (such as "onclick" or "onmouseover") and I want to set a function to that event. I was wondering if, rather than doing a long if statement, there was a way to do so using the string.

[Synook]

You can just use array notation:

var event_str = "onclick";document.getElementById("element")[event_str] = function() {	do_something();}

[shadowayex]

Oh that's nifty. Thanks =)