Tip: How to remove the hardcoded javascript event handlers

Question

I am continuing the development of the new tagbox plugin.

For the implementation I stumbled over the problem that the event handlers are hardcoded in q2a v1.6.3:

<input name="tags" id="tags" autocomplete="off" onkeyup="qa_tag_hints();" onmouseup="qa_tag_hints();" type="text" value="" class="qa-form-tall-text">

<input name="title" id="title" autocomplete="off" onkeyup="qa_title_change(this.value);" type="text" value="" class="qa-form-tall-text">

And I needed to turn them off.

I tried jquery's unbind and off methods but they did not work - because the on... are hardcoded!

Finally I could remove them by using the attr-method:

                $('#tags').attr('onkeyup',null);
                $('#tags').attr('onmouseup',null);
                $('#title').attr('onkeyup',null);
 

Hope that helps.

 

@Scott: Please try to transfer the entire javascript code to Jquery methods. It will make development much easier for upcoming plugins.