Generic function assignment

[Rob Hunter]

Hi All,
I have a function that, upon window load, goes through a page and assign functions to the onclick events of some form elements (esp. buttons). Is there a way to mimic the following by assignment through javascript?

    
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Click here" onclick="javascript: return somefunction();">

In my case the html code would not have the onclick section but in a function on load it would grab the submitButton and assign a function. How do I "return false" in this case? Thanks.

Rob

[Bear Bibeault]

Why does the control have a name rather than an id? Is the value of the button significant on the server? If not, no name.

Names are for the server, ids are for the client.

Assuming that we change the attribute to id="submitButton":

document.getElementById('submitButton').onclick = somefunction;  

P.S. When embedding handlers in HTML markup (not recommended) do not use the javascript: prefix.

[Rob Hunter]

Hi Bear, I didn't copy and paste but the actual code does use id. I found what I was looking for event.returnValue = false. Thanks for the response.