Copy attribute from DOM node into a dijit widget?

Question

I have html markup like this

<button id="button1" onclick="alert='yup'"></button>

and I want to make a button widget using that DOM as an anchor

var button = new Button({label: "button"}, "button1")

How do I copy onclick attribute into button widget ? The reason I want to do this because web-framework I used (lift) add some function to button before I make it into dijit widget.

Answer 1

PEM is absolutely correct, use dojo parser for that (the keyword for onclick will then be with capital 'C' : "onClick='alert(true)'" or "data-dojo-props='onClick:function() {alert(true)}' ".

Anyways, here's one way to achieve it

var dom = dojo.byId('button1');
var fn = eval(dom.onclick.toString());
dom.onclick = null;
var button = new Button({label: "button", onClick:fn}, "button1");