Passing parameters to eventListener function

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Published on 2010-12-28T06:44:21Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 6:53 UTC
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I have this function check(e) that I'd like to be able to pass parameters from test() when I add it to the eventListener. Is this possible? Like say to get the mainlink variable to pass through the parameters. Is this even good to do?

I put the javascript below, I also have it on jsbin: http://jsbin.com/ujahe3/9/edit

function test() {
  if (!document.getElementById('myid')) {
  var mainlink = document.getElementById('mainlink');
  var newElem = document.createElement('span');
  mainlink.appendChild(newElem);
  var linkElemAttrib = document.createAttribute('id');
  linkElemAttrib.value = "myid";
  newElem.setAttributeNode(linkElemAttrib);

  var linkElem = document.createElement('a');
  newElem.appendChild(linkElem);

  var linkElemAttrib = document.createAttribute('href');
  linkElemAttrib.value = "jsbin.com";
  linkElem.setAttributeNode(linkElemAttrib);

  var linkElemText = document.createTextNode('new click me');
  linkElem.appendChild(linkElemText);

  if (document.addEventListener) {
  document.addEventListener('click', check/*(WOULD LIKE TO PASS PARAMETERS HERE)*/, false);                       
  };
};
};

function check(e) {
  if (document.getElementById('myid')) {
    if (document.getElementById('myid').parentNode === document.getElementById('mainlink')) {
      var target = (e && e.target) || (event && event.srcElement); 
      var obj = document.getElementById('mainlink'); 
      if (target!= obj) {
        obj.removeChild(obj.lastChild);
      };
    };
  };
};

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