How can I stop a default event when using a named function in addEvent?
- by Rupert
Normally, if I wish to stop a default event in mootools I can do this:
$('form').addEvent('submit', function(e) {
e.stop();
//Do stuff here
}
However, I don't like using an anonymous function in events because I often want to reuse the code. Lets say I have a validate function. I could do this:
$('form').addEvent('submit', validate);
which works fine until I want to stop the default event. validate obviously doesn't know what e is so I can't just do e.stop(). Also I've tried passing the event as a variable to validate but whenever I use a named function with parameters, the function gets called automatically on domready, rather than on the event firing. Even worse, an error is thrown when the event is fired:
What am I doing wrong?
