Attaching events in JavaScript
- by R0MANARMY
As comment to one of the questions here a commenter wrote (emphasis mine):
... By using an inline "onclick" you are doing a similar thing, but it is harder to maintain and more prone to issues. The JavaScript community as a whole has been moving away from inline JavaScript for a while now.
This was referring to attaching events to HTML elements using
$("#someID").click(function(){
do something here...;
});
rather than
<a id="someID" onclick="someFunction();">
Has there really been a shift away from the old school way of declaring events inline, and if so, what are the benefits of one of the other?
