Another JS q

Yes, yet another JS q - hope you can help :-)


I have found out (from my trusty O'reilley JS book) how to assign a function
to an event handler:

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function MyonClick( myMsg)
{
alert ("ON CLICK " )
alert ("ON CLICK with  myMsg = " +   myMsg)
}
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function AddmyClick()
{

for (var i=0 ; i< document.links.length ; i++)
   {
    document.links[i].onclick = MyonClick ;
   }
}
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(and i call "AddmyClick" in the body onLoad event).
This works fine, except of course, "myMsg" is undefined.

But, i cannot figure out (assuming it is possible) how to pass a parameter
(argument?) to the event;
I have tried all of the following unsuccessfully:

document.links[i].onclick = MyonClick ("hello");
document.links[i].onclick = MyonClick , "This is eddy" ;
document.links[i].onclick = MyonClick  "Your shipboard computer"    ;

But none will allow me to display the message from the onClick event.

*Can* a parameter be assigned to an event handler in this way; and if so,
how?

Many thanks!

Hilma
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