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How to dynamically add data from a span tag into a href tag

I think this may have a simple answer that I'm missing. The following tag inserts a TV show name into any page on my website:
<span class="show-title"></span>
what I'm trying to do is incorporate that data dynamically into a HREF URL link.
So, let's say on the page I'm on:
produced the result: GOTHAM.
I'd like to then use that data to create this url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTHAM_(TV_series)
So I'm trying stuff like:
</span>_(TV_series)"> Link
or
Link
nothing working - any help would be awesome. Thanks!

You could do something like this:
In HTML
<a class="wikipedia-link">Link</a>
And your JavaScript function:
setLink(showTitle) {
var link = document.getElementsByClassName("wikipedia-link");
link.setAttribute("href", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + showTitle + "_(TV_series)");
}

The html you use is wrong. span shouldn't be inside tag a. No tag inside another.
If your result is in javascript variable, you can set the url using jquery.
$('a').attr('href', "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + result + "_(TV_series)");
result variable is your desired result.

Although there's better ways of going about doing this, I'm going to answer the question in the context in which you presented it:
First, give the url link a class or ID so you can easily select it with JavaScript to change the href value later. Also, don't try to nest the span tag anywhere inside the a tag. Leave it outside.
<span class="show-title">GOTHAM</span>
Link
Next, in a JavaScript file or a <script> tag, define your variables:
var showTitle, showWikipediaLink, linkElement
Then, assign value to your newly defined variables
linkElement = document.querySelector('.show-wikipedia-link');
showTitle = document.querySelector('.show-title').innerText;
showWikipediaLink = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + showTitle + '_(TV_series)';
Finally, use JavaScript to update the href value of the link element to the show's Wikipedia link:
linkElement.href = showWikipediaLink;

javascript set variable from .text method

I'm new in javascript development and I want to ask how to set variable from text method.
Example: in this code have a text method
$('.phone').text(theRestaurant.phone);
$('.location').text(theRestaurant.location);
$('.info').text(theRestaurant.info);
in the Html file, when I create any class from these will print the value from JSON file.
Example :
<div class='phone'></div>
Output: (000)000-9999
source code:
<div class='phone'>(000)000-9999</div>
I try to set this in variable but it doesn't work.
My try:
var phone = theRestaurant.phone
I want to set it in variable because I need to put it inside href value like so:
<script>
var phone = 'tel:' + phone
document.getElementById("phone").href = phone;
</script>
I hope everything clear. and If have an other solution please tell about it.
Thanks

Have you wrapped your jQuery code in a document.ready() wrapper?
If not, then the javascript might run before the page has had time to create the elements in the DOM, and nothing will work.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
//all javascript/jQuery code goes in here
});
</script>
Also, see my comment above about mixing up "ByClassName" and "ByID"

Answer came from #itsgoingdown
this code in main javascript file:
var phone=document.getElementById('phone').innerHTML; document.getElementsByClassName("phone")[0].href = phone;

form submit by clicking on anchor tag in IE11

I am trying to update some old code that works correctly on all versions of IE except IE11. When an anchor tag is clicked a javascript function is run. The function . All that the function does is that it gets certain values from the DOM and then submits a form using the post action.
I understand that IE11 submit does not work if the input element does not have a name. Here, the submit is done by clicking on an anchor tag- I tried adding a name and id to the anchor tag but it is still not working.
Any idea on how to get it to work. Following is the anchor tag.
<a class="nohigh" href="javascript:getClassDetails('<%=Id%>');">
Following is the javascript function:
function getClassDetails(a){
var classId = document.getElementById(classIdRow ).value;
var courseId = document.getElementById(courseIdRow).value;
document.getElementById('val1').value = classId
document.getElementById('val2').value = courseId
document.getElementById('clasCourseForm').submit();
}

The function that you want should be:
function getClassDetails(a){
var classId = document.getElementById(classIdRow).value; // assuming classIdRow is defined
var courseId = document.getElementById(courseIdRow).value; // assuming courseIdRow is defined
document.getElementById('val1').value = classId;
document.getElementById('val2').value = courseId;
document.getElementById('clasCourseForm').submit();
}
That's at least assuming that all the JavaScript you have up there ^ is verbatim.

[edit: removed the original answer, as the question has been changed to correct the syntax]
In addition, the JS code has other weirdness, in that the function is accepting a parameter (a) but never uses it within the function. There's almost certainly some kind of logic mistake involved there which you'll want to look into.

fixed it - by adding both a name and id to the form.

Show URL in browser when link added with javascript

I have added an onclick function to a div here:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("fab").onclick = function() {
location.href = 'http://your.url.here';
}
</script>
When you hover over the div, it doesnt show the URL in the bottom left of the browser like an anchor tag does (see picture): http://i.stack.imgur.com/iGLHS.png
Is there any way to make the browser show the link, when it has been added with javascript?

Add the title attribute to your element:
<div id="fab" title="http://your.url.here'></div>
Actually this is different than the popup you're seeing, but it might be as close as you can get.
As #Benten points out, you'd have to set window.status, which isn't allowed by most modern browsers.

I don't think you can directly access the property that you are looking for any more. Usually it's ignored. See this: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_win_status.asp . I'd say the other answer is your best bet.

I think something different. I hope i didnt understand it wrong. If you add -a- element as parent to your -div- it acts like what you want.
var element = document.getElementById("fab");
var aa = document.createElement("a");
aa.setAttribute('href', 'http://www.google.com');
var parent = element.parentNode;
parent.insertBefore(aa, element);
aa.appendChild(element);
please let me know if i understand it wrong?

jquery access to element after append by variable as id

Via ajax i retrieve some json data, make it as html and append it to my page.
Here I have a problem. I cant access element by id, if id is variable.
For example, http://jsfiddle.net/f8g5e/1/
<div id="123">Hello</div>
<div id="321">Bye</div>
<div id="out"></div>
$(function(){
key = '123';
$('#' + key).hide();
$('#321').hide();
});
The simples thing is works! #123 and #321 elements are hidden. Yeah, it's pretty obviosly.
But, in my project, when I append data to page:
$('#123') //returns element
$('#' + key) //returns null
Some code:
// generating data
var htmlData = '<div id="123">Greetings!</div><div id="321">Bye bye</div>';
// appending data
$('#tweets').empty();
$('#tweets').append(htmlData);
What are the possible causes i can't access elements?
Thanks.
UPDATE
Dont know how it works in JSFiddle, but when I changed my IDs to properly names it began to work now. Thanks to all! Next time, I'll take more attention to w3c dom standarts ;) Happy New Year!

The only reason I can think of that $('#'+key) wouldn't work is because the variable key is undefined.
Note: you're not supposed to start an ID with a number according to the W3C spec. However, most browsers allow it, so I doubt this is causing your problem.
However, if you have two divs with the same ID attribute, then JavaScript will only select the first one it finds -- IDs are supposed to be unique. If this is happening, use classes instead.

You can either do this:
$(function() {
$('#321,#123').hide();
});
or you can do this:
$(function() {
var key = '123';
var doit = '321';
$('#' + key + ',#' + doit).hide();
});