Call javascript on checkbox onclick

Question

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here. I just want my function to be called when I click the checkbox. Replacing the function call with alert() works, am I referencing my function incorrectly?

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
function select(a){
    document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML=""+a;
}
</script>

<input type="checkbox" onclick="select(1)">

<div id="myDiv">hi</div>

</body>
</html>

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August Lilleaas · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-05 09:10:10Z

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Change the function name [e.g. selectFun]. select seems to be reserved keyword

edited Oct 5, 2010 at 9:10

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answered Oct 5, 2010 at 8:50

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Kevin D · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-05 08:58:06Z

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This puzzled me as it looked ok to me too, So ran through the usual tests, eventually tried changing the function name and that worked fine.

answered Oct 5, 2010 at 8:58

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Kevin D Over a year ago

Actually is does answer the question, it's just a really badly written answer from 4 years ago, no doubt when I was in a rush. Note "Tried changing the function name and that worked fine", also note the accepted answer above which involved changing the function name. In all probability d the accepted answer was posted whilst I was writing/testing things out.

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