OnClick without jQuery

Question

How to make onclick without jQuery, with no extra code in HTML, such as:

<a href="#" onclick="tramtramtram"> 

Just using an external js file?

<script type="text/javascript" src="functions.js"></script> 

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I need to replace this code:

$("a.scroll-up, a.scroll-down").click(function(){     SNavigate($(this).attr("href").substr(7));return false; }); 

Answer 1

When this anchor will contain only one function to handle on click, than you can just write

document.getElementById('anchorID').onclick=function(){/* some code */} 

otherwise, you have to use DOM method addEventListener

function clickHandler(){ /* some code */ } var anchor = document.getElementById('anchorID'); if(anchor.addEventListener) // DOM method   anchor.addEventListener('click', clickHandler, false); else if(anchor.attachEvent) // this is for IE, because it doesn't support addEventListener    anchor.attachEvent('onclick', function(){ return clickHandler.apply(anchor, [window.event]}); // this strange part for making the keyword 'this' indicate the clicked anchor 

also remember to call the above code when all elements are loaded (eg. on window.onload)

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I see you added some details. If you want to replace the code below

$("a.scroll-up, a.scroll-down").click(function(){SNavigate($(this).attr("href").substr(7));return false;}); 

with sth that doesn't use jQuery, this should do the job

function addEvent(obj, type, fn) {         if (obj.addEventListener)                 obj.addEventListener(type, fn, false);         else if (obj.attachEvent)                 obj.attachEvent('on' + type, function() { return fn.apply(obj, [window.event]);}); } addEvent(window, 'load', function(){    for(var i=0, a=document.anchors, l=a.length; i<l;++i){       if(a[i].className == 'scroll-up' || a[i].className == 'scroll-down'){          addEvent(a[i], 'click', function(e){ SNavigate(this.href.substr(7)); e.returnValue=false; if(e.preventDefault)e.preventDefault();return false});       }    } });