MSIE and addEventListener Problem in Javascript?

In IE you have to use attachEvent rather than the standard addEventListener.

A common practice is to check if the addEventListener method is available and use it, otherwise use attachEvent:

if (el.addEventListener){
  el.addEventListener('click', modifyText, false); 
} else if (el.attachEvent){
  el.attachEvent('onclick', modifyText);
}

You can make a function to do it:

function bindEvent(el, eventName, eventHandler) {
  if (el.addEventListener){
    el.addEventListener(eventName, eventHandler, false); 
  } else if (el.attachEvent){
    el.attachEvent('on'+eventName, eventHandler);
  }
}
// ...
bindEvent(document.getElementById('myElement'), 'click', function () {
  alert('element clicked');
});

You can run an example of the above code here.

The third argument of addEventListener is useCapture; if true, it indicates that the user wishes to initiate event capturing.

In case you are using JQuery 2.x then please add the following in the

<html>
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge;" />
   </head>
   <body>
    ...
   </body>
</html>

This worked for me.

MSIE and addEventListener Problem in Javascript?

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