addEventListener not working in IE8

Question

I have created a checkbox dynamically. I have used addEventListener to call a function on click of the checkbox, which works in Google Chrome and Firefox but doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8. This is my code:

var _checkbox = document.createElement("input"); _checkbox.addEventListener("click", setCheckedValues, false); 

setCheckedValues is my event handler.

Answer 1

Try:

if (_checkbox.addEventListener) {     _checkbox.addEventListener("click", setCheckedValues, false); } else {     _checkbox.attachEvent("onclick", setCheckedValues); } 

Update:: For Internet Explorer versions prior to IE9, attachEvent method should be used to register the specified listener to the EventTarget it is called on, for others addEventListener should be used.