Custom Event Attributes

I'm working with custom events, and I've run into a problem - when I dispatch the event (with dispatchEvent()) to the body of the page, it won't fire the function I assigned to the event handler, and instead I have to use event listeners. Is there any way to overcome this problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)

If in an HTML attribute:

document.addEventListener("mycustomevent", function(event) {
eval(event.target.getAttribute("onmycustomevent"));
}, true);

Else if assigned via javascript:

document.addEventListener("mycustomevent", function(event) {
event.target.onmycustomevent();
}, true);

You might want to change the true to the false if you want to fire it on bubbling instead of on capturing, but whatever. The gist is there.

Thanks, jkd!

You might want to change the true to the false if you want to fire it on bubbling instead of on capturing, but whatever.

I didn't even realize, heh. *changed*