What are some other ways to programmatically click a text link on a page? The link does not have a ID and will not have one.
example link will look like this:
<div unselectable="on" class="x-grid-cell-inner " style="text-align:left;">
Click Here
</div>
Here's one way I can do it but want to know more ways to click it.
var els = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i = 0, l = els.length; i < l; i++)
{
var el = els[i];
if (el.text === 'Click Here')
{
el.click()
}
}
It can't have an id? That would be the best route IMO. Second best approaches:
Assign a class, and look up by class
or
Assign an id or class to the parent object, and look up the first "a" child
Related
I would like to know how can I detect that the button is clicked using getElementByClassName. The button doesn't have an ID and is generated as a part of embedded iframe.
<button class="playButton medium" role="application" title="Play" style="color: rgb(204)</button>
I am trying this script that would alert if the button is clicked, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
var x = document.getElementByClassName("playButton medium");
for (var i=0; i < x.length; i++) {
x[i].onclick = function() {
alert("clicked");
}
};
Thank you for any advice
Firstly it's getElementsByClassName(), note the plural s. Secondly, you can only supply a single class as an argument to that function. Also it's better practice to use addEventListener() over on* event properties. Try this:
var x = document.getElementsByClassName("playButton");
for (var i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
x[i].addEventListener('click', function() {
console.log("clicked");
});
};
<button class="playButton medium" role="application" title="Play" style="color: rgb(204)">Play</button>
If you wanted to select the elements using both classes you could instead use document.querySelectorAll('.playButton.medium').
Might be a strange setup, but I have a number of hyperlinks on the page with the same id (yeah, I know, but it was not my choice and I cannot change that at this time plus those hyperlinks are generated dynamically).
Example:
<div id="Links">
<div class="myItem">Some text</div>
<div class="myItem">More text</div>
<div class="myItem">Even more text</div>
</div>
Now I need to attach javascript to those links dynamically (the hyperlinks are also dynamically generated). The easiest way I see is by getting all hyperlinks on the page and then check the hyperlink id to ensure I only take care of those that have id of "myLink" (I have many other hyperlinks on the page).
I thought of using getElementById but that would only grab the first element with the specified id.
am attaching javascript to those links using the following:
window.onload = function() {
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
var anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.id='myLink')
{
if (anchor.getAttribute("LinkID") != null)
{
anchor.onclick = function() {
MyFunction(this.getAttribute("LinkID"), false);
return false;
}
}
}
}
}
The above function works fine, but it creates another issue - affects the styling of other hyperlinks on the page. So I was wondering if there is a way to accomplish the same thing but without affecting other elements on the page?
This is more modern and corrects your equality test:
window.onload = function() {
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
if (anchor[i].id==='myLink' && anchor[i].getAttribute("LinkID") !== null)
{
anchor[i].addEventListener("click", function() {
MyFunction(this.getAttribute("LinkID"), false);
}
}
}
}
Even with your original code, I don't see anything that would interfere with styling in the code. Can you elaborate as what styling changes you were getting?
You can use an attribute selector and document.querySelector([id=<id>]) pretty reliably depending on your browser support situation: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/YwLdKj
Then, of course, loop through that result and make subsequent changes or event bindings.
If not, you could use jQuery (referenced in above code pen).
You might also use JavaScript event delegation and listen for all click events, check if the user is clicking a link with the correct id.
If a combination of tag == 'a', class == "myItem" and presence of a LinkID attribute is sufficient to identify nodes requiring a click handler they could be identified using multiple CSS selectors. If this is not possible however, a query selector not using id can create a list of nodes to be checked for id, as for example:
function callMyFunction()
{ MyFunction(this.getAttribute("LinkID"), false);
}
function addClickHandlers()
{ var list = document.querySelectorAll("a[LinkID]")
var i, node;
for( i = 0; i < list.length; ++i)
{ node = list[i];
if(node.id == "myLink")
{ node.onclick=callMyFunction;
}
}
}
See also running a selector query on descendant elements of given node if of interest.
I try to find an easy solution (I am a totally coding beginner, just use javascript in widgets of a "out of the box" page) for the following problem:
There are multiple attributes visitor can select by click Remove/Show
attribute a (Remove/Show)
attribute b (Remove/Show)
attribute c (Remove/Show)
a.s.o.
based on visitors "selection", I would like to show or hide the list of elements:
element 1 (attribute a and b) - Remove if "a" OR "b" has been selected
element 2 (attribute a) - remove if "a" has been selected
element 3 (attribute a and c) - remove, if "a" OR "c" has been selected
a.s.o.
I am able already to hide elements based on a "selection", but in my solution every element show and hide only based on the unique ID (and so also only on the single selection).
The Javascript I found for that is:
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function swap(openlink,closelink, linkid, dataid)
{
if( document.getElementById(dataid).style.display == 'none')
{
document.getElementById(dataid).style.display='inline';
document.getElementById(linkid).firstChild.nodeValue=closelink;
} else
{
document.getElementById(dataid).style.display='none';
document.getElementById(linkid).firstChild.nodeValue=openlink;
}
}
//]]>
</script>
And than I could use this HTML Code to Remove/Show the elements:
attribute a Remove
attribute b Remove
attribute c Remove
And my element will be Remove/Show by this:
<div id="showmeA" style="display:inline">Element 1</div>
<div id="showmeB" style="display:inline">Element 2</div>
<div id="showmeB" style="display:inline">Element 3</div>
Is there an easy way to add 2 ids to one "element", so that for example Element 1 could be hidden by id=showmeA AND id=showmeB?
You said the issue yourself: IDs are unique.
This is exactly why you should use something else than id, and class attribute is perfectly fine as it does not have to be unique.
Then, this means that the function will not look for your elements using getElementById() but getElementsByClassName().
Note that this function get elements, this involves that you have to loop through these elements and hide / show the ones targeted.
function swap(openlink, closelink, linkid, dataclass) {
var elements = document.getElementsByClassName(dataclass);
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
var element = elements[i];
if(element.style.display == 'none') {
element.style.display='inline';
document.getElementById(linkid).firstChild.nodeValue=closelink;
} else {
element.style.display='none';
document.getElementById(linkid).firstChild.nodeValue=openlink;
}
}
}
Do not forget to replace id by class attributes to your HTML, you can put in as much as you want, they simply must be separated by a space:
<div class="showmeA showmeB">Element 1</div>
<div class="showmeB">Element 2</div>
<div class="showmeC">Element 3</div>
Here is an example that you can use to better understand the function and attributes used in your solution, this solves your issue: https://jsfiddle.net/sy2mxscf/
It is also important to inform you that inline Javascript is bad, you should reconsider your code when your Javascript skill will increase.
In order to solve the issue pointed out in the comments, you have to use some kind of counter and increment it when you hide the element, decrement it when you show element of one of his class, and displaying the associate element when this counter is 0.
This is also why you need two differentiated links: the "Remove" to increment, and the "Show" to decrement.
There are several way to implement this solution:
Use an associative array in Javascript
Use a custom attribute on the element
Add and remove specific classes
I chose the last one but this may be not the best one, this is just one of the possibilities.
https://jsfiddle.net/sy2mxscf/2/
The idea is to add or remove a custom "hidemeX" class. If you click on two different "Remove" links targeting the same element, two classes will be added. If you then click on any "Show" link, the associate class will be removed. But there is still a "hidemeX" class remaining until you click on the second link, so the element is not displayed thanks to CSS.
As Delgan says, its better to use class here, and you can use those <a>'s id as their class, so when you use your function swap, you can easily trace back to decide if the elements is selected, so the div should be removed.
Below is how you can separate javascript logic and html structure.
var swap = function(e) {
var close = 'Remove', open = 'Show';
var next = this.text === close ? open : close;
// Set the clicked <a>'s text.
this.text = next;
// Get divs that will affect by this <a>
var affectTarget = this.id;
// Affected div elements
var targets = document.getElementsByClassName(affectTarget);
var i, len = targets.length;
var visible;
var watch, wLen, j;
// For each <div> that will be affect by the clicked <a>, we have to chec :
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
// Get the classes that used as a list to show which <a> will have a effect on it.
watch = targets[i].classList;
wLen = watch.length;
// visibilty is default to inline, if no <a> that it watches is selected, then it'll show
visible = "inline";
for (j = 0; j < wLen; ++j) {
// If any of the <a> it watches is selected, set the visibilty to none.
if (document.getElementById(watch[j]).text === open) {
visible = "none";
break;
}
}
targets[i].style.display = visible;
}
};
// For each switcher, we register a click event for it.
var switchers = document.querySelectorAll("a.showSwitcher");
var i, len = switchers.length;
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
switchers[i].addEventListener('click', swap);
}
attribute a Remove
attribute b Remove
attribute c Remove
<hr/>
<div class="swaplinkA swaplinkB" style="display:inline">Element 1</div>
<div class="swaplinkA"style="display:inline">Element 2</div>
<div class="swaplinkA swaplinkC"style="display:inline">Element 3</div>
How do I find a element Id that is autogenerated which means that element will never have the same id once the browser reloads.
There's a way where I find that element string let's say "Click" by doing this in jquery:
$( "a:contains('Click')" ); which gives me this,
<a href="test.com" id=alwayschanging >Click</a>
How do I send a click event to that id or string?
Use a selector which doesn't make use of the ID
$('a[href="saveFile"]').click()
If you can't use jQuery you will have to use
var els = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0, l = els.length; i < l; i++) {
var el = els[i];
if (el.text === 'Click') {
el.click()
}
}
You don't need the id to send a click event. Just click it
$( "a:contains('Click')" ).click()
Is there a way with Javascript to store all the class names inside #links into an array and use a loop to assign each an ID of that class?
Below would be before
<div id="links">
some link
some link
some link
some link
</div>
after javascript
<div id="links">
some link
some link
some link
some link
</div>
Here are two plain-vanilla ways to do it with JavaScript (no jQuery). Of course this assumes that your only have the one class per element.
var elem = document.getElementById('links');
for (var i = 0; i < elem.getElementsByTagName('a').length; i++) {
elem.getElementsByTagName('a')[i].setAttribute('id',elem.getElementsByTagName('a')[i].className)
}
or
var links = document.getElementById('links').getElementsByTagName('a');
Array.prototype.map.call(links, function (el) {
el.setAttribute('id',el.className)
});