My goal is to enable clients to create a list of students and then easily access more information by clicking on the respective student's button. I have successfully implemented the creation of buttons with each student's name displayed, but the issue is that the function only triggers when I click the submit button to add the student to the list, not when I click on the actual student button.
function updateStudentList() {
var html = "";
for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
html += "<li><button type='button' class='studentButton'" + "id=" + students[i].name +">" + students[i].name + "</button></li>";
}
$('#studentList').html(html);
for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
document.getElementById(students[i].name).addEventListener('click', openStudentInfo(students[i].name));
}
}
function openStudentInfo(studentName) {
console.log("Opening " + studentName + " info.");
var studentInfo = requestStudentByName(studentName);
if (studentInfo != null) {
var studentInfoForm = $("#studentInfoForm");
var html = "";
html += "<h3>Student Name: " + studentInfo.name + "</h3>";
html += "<h3>Student ID: " + studentInfo.studentID + "</h3>";
studentInfoForm.html(html);
$("#studentInfoModal").show();
}
}
HTML:
<ul data-role="listview" id="studentList"> </ul>
Important Note: It is necessary to avoid using the onclick tag in HTML due to security concerns, which are also compounded by Cordova blocking this functionality.