adding a mouseover to a link through javascript

Question

Simple quick question....

I have the following link html:

<a href="http://www.site.com/" onmouseover="" />

I have a javascript function which I want to enter some onmouseover information into that link dynamically. So, lets say it then becomes this for example if this javascript function is called:

<a href="http://www.site.com/" onmouseover="alert('howdy')" />

any ideas how to do this?

Answer 1

Add name attribute to and assign onmouseover

<a href="http://www.site.com/" onmouseover="" name="xxx"/> 
document.getelementsbyname('xxx').onmouseover = function() { alert('howdy') }