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  1. POAdding onclick event to newly created table header in javascript, but the onclick function is added to all th's on the page, not just the one I want
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    copied!<p>I'm generating a table in js and using a function as follows for some of the headers:</p> <pre><code>function generateTableHeader(table) { var tr = document.createElement('tr'); var th = document.createElement('th'); th.onclick = function(){ toggleHidden("hide_header_" + table_count); }; th.appendChild(document.createTextNode(key)); tr.appendChild(th); table.appendChild(tr); } </code></pre> <p>My toggle hidden function just hides all elements of the class "hide_header_{some number}". It works fine.</p> <p>The problem is, I call this generateTableHeader function several times, creating headers for multiple tables - each time it's called table_count (global variable) is incremented and I expected this function to hide only the class of elements with the number it has when the onclick event is created. Instead, whenever I click on any of the headers, they always hide the last element created.</p> <p>The function is called 4 times to create 4 table headers in 4 different tables - each has a column of td's with the correct class name (i.e. "hide_header_1", "hide_header_2" and so on). When I click on the first header, the fourth table column is hidden/show. When I click the second, third, or fourth, still only the fourth column is hidden/show. I want each th click to hide only the td's in that table.</p> <p>It's as if the th onclick event I am creating is being overwritten each time I call this function, not sure why. Any ideas?</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated!</p>
 

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