onclick or onClick?

javascript onclick
Gabi Purcaru picture Gabi Purcaru · Dec 7, 2010 · Viewed 28.3k times · Source

I thought that binding the click event in javascript is done by using node.onclick, and Chrome/Firefox seem to agree with me, but I saw it written .onClick here 4 times by 3 people, so it can't be a typo and I doubt that it's a coincidence.

So, why are people writing onClick when it does not work?

UPDATE: There are two good explanations; I don't know which one of them is the most plausible, so I will accept the answer based on popular vote, tomorrow.

Answer

Nick Craver picture Nick Craver · Dec 7, 2010

Because some browsers (depending on the DOCTYPE) are tolerant of the inline onClick="something();" attribute...it seems to have spread a bit, even into JavaScript questions where it doesn't work, since case matters.

Also, specifically to stackoverflow...people using it in questions...well, most of the time they wouldn't be asking a question if their code worked :)

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