How can you do something like this:
<a href="some javascript statement that isn't a function call;" >myLink</a>
And have the js in the href execute when the link is clicked.
Just put the JS code directly in there:
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Though, you should not be doing inline scripting. You should unobtrusively attach event handlers.
<a id="lol" href="/blah">fdsj</a>
<script>
document.getElementById('lol').onclick=function() {
/* code */
};
</script>
<a href="javascript:var hi = 3;" >myLink</a>
Now you can use hi anywhere to get 3.
You can write inline-code in the same way as
<a href="javascript:[code]">
This method is also available in other tags.
addition
if you want to Execution when something tag clicking, you can fix with onClick attribute
<a onClick="function()">
I know this question is old but I had a similar challenge dynamically modifying the href attribute that sends an email when the anchor tag is clicked.
The solution I came up with is this:
$('#mailLink,#loginMailLink,#sbMailLink').click(function () {
this.setAttribute('href', "mailto:" + sessionStorage.administrator_mail_address + "?subject=CACS GNS Portal - Comments or Request For Access&body=Hi");
});
<a id="loginMailLink" href= "#" style="color:blue">CACS GNS Site Admin.</a>
I hope that helps.
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I would like to make the href attribute of my anchor tag to call a method instead of going to some url. I know that in plain js I can do this:
..href={"javascript: foo(value)">
So I've done the same in my jsx file:
<a href={javascript: ()=>foo(value)}>Click Here!</a>
but it doesn't work.
How it can be done?
use reacts onClick
You can use onClick on an element in react.
like this
<a onClick={()=>foo(value)}>Click Here!</a>
That being said, if the purpose of your a tag is not to go to a link then your html is incorrect and you should think about using a button tag instead
in React use onClick to do the job
<a onClick={() => doSomething("Hello") }>Click Me</a>
I'm trying to change a certain word in the title of a page dynamically with javascript depending on which link in the nav is clicked on. So for instance, if the "Asia" link is clicked I want the h2 to display: "You are in Asia" or if the "Europe link is clicked I want the h2 to say: "You are in Europe."
The html for the nav bar:
<div id="zone-nav">
<a href="" id="surge-btn"</a>
<a href="" id="latin-btn"</a>
<a href="" id="africa-btn"</a>
<a href="" id="asia-btn"</a>
</div>
The html I have thus far for the title that needs to be changed: `
<h2 id="zoneName">You are in<span id="zoneName"></span></h2>`
I know I need to write a function to determine what link is pressed, but I am a little confused on how to approach this.
if you add some extra markup to your html, you can use a single jQuery event handler:
<div id="zone-nav">
<a class="zone-select" href="" id="surge-btn">Surge?</a>
<a class="zone-select" href="" id="latin-btn">Latin</a>
<a class="zone-select" href="" id="africa-btn">Africa</a>
<a class="zone-select" href="" id="asia-btn">Asia</a>
</div>
now the event handler:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".zone-select").on("click", function() {
$("#zoneName").html($(this).html());
};
});
Firstly you need to deal with your duplicate id here:
<h2 id="zoneName">You are in<span id="zoneName"></span></h2>
Note we cannot have the same id otherwise we don't know how to get an element by it's id. So remove the uneeded one on the h2:
<h2>You are in <span id="zoneName"></span></h2>
Then add event's to your a tags:
<div id="zone-nav">
<a onclick="update('Surge')" id="surge-btn" >item1</a>
<a onclick="update('Latin')" id="latin-btn" >item2</a>
<a onclick="update('Africa')" id="africa-btn" >item3</a>
<a onclick="update('Asia')" id="asia-btn" >item4</a>
</div>
Note: This can be done purely in JavaScript or be done easily in jQuery. But since you did not mention it I will not be using jQuery. We could iterate through by ClassName and have the links be a class, but that's no more simple then the way above.
For the JavaScript we need to return false to prevent the default behavior of a anchor tag:
function update(text) {
document.getElementById("zoneName").innerHTML = text;
return false;
}
Here is a working Fiddle
Would there be a way to keep the updated text in the even if the page reloads?
Yes there is a way to do this without having to use a server-sided language. What I will do is use HTML 5 web storage, note this will only work for browsers that support HTML 5 (which is all of the modern ones), you can use cookies if you need support for older browsers that work similarly for the following example. In this case I will be using sessionStorage which saves the information even until the browser is closed.
I will emulate a href to the same page for the <a> tags, we need to do this because we need to save out information before we move to a new page. After I save I will call location.reload() that will act as a refresh. Note that you could make this move to an entirely new page as well, just include the script on the new page and use window.location.href = "newPageUrl" ( jsfiddle prevents me from moving to a new page ).
The HTML will be the same but the JavaScript will be updated as followed:
window.onload = function() { // When the page loads
if(sessionStorage.zoneName) { // Check if the session exist
// update the page with the session info
document.getElementById("zoneName").innerHTML = sessionStorage.zoneName;
}
}
function update(text) {
sessionStorage.zoneName = text; // store the text into a session called "zoneName"
location.reload(); // reload the page
return;
}
Here is a working Fiddle
Here's an example of what you could do for the africa-btn (this will require jQuery, I hope that's alright):
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#africa-btn").on("click", function() {
$("#zoneName").html("Africa");
};
// Other buttons here
});
What this is doing is attaching an action to the "click" event of the africa-btn anchor tag. When it's clicked it should update the span's html as described above. You can add further click events in a similar way.
Using $("#africa-btn") to bind the click event is a way to do it specifically for that one button, so you'll have to do it for each id.
This would update the selected zone in the dom
<div id="zone-nav">
<a id="africa-btn" onclick="updateZone('africa'); return false;"> </a>
<a id="asia-btn" onclick="updateZone('asia'); return false;"> </a>
</div>
function updateZone(countryName){
document.getElementById('zoneName').innerText = countryName;
return false;
}
are you looking for something like this :
Simple html and javascript only:
http://jsfiddle.net/q9L37c32/
Asia
I know this is super simple, but I can't work it out (I'm a designer).
I want to simply populate the href attribute value of the <a> tag, with the value of the src attribute of the <img> tag. So the image links to itself basically.
the image src will be updated through a super simple CMS and I want the link to dynamically update, instead of the user having to update the URL also.
I tried something like this, but it didn't work.
<a rel="lightbox[job1]" href="()document.getElementById("gal1_img1").src">
<img id="gal1_img1" src="images/gallery/job1/image-1.jpg">`enter code here`
</a>
You cannot inline JavaScript inside attributes the way you have currently. You can add a script to the page to do this:
<a id="link" rel="lightbox[job1]" href="#">
<img id="gal1_img1" src="images/gallery/job1/image-1.jpg">`enter code here`
</a>
<script>
document.getElementById("link").href = document.getElementById("gal1_img1").src;
</script>
try this as your <a>'s href:
href="javascript:window.location=this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0].src;"
Assuming there's only ever one image inside these <a> tags, this should work for anyone who's NOT running with javascript disabled.
try this.
var att = $('#gal1_img1').attr('src');
$("a[rel*='lightbox[job1]']").attr('href',att);
i have an anchor tag as below.
<a style="border:0px" href='javascript:deleteAttachment(this);' />
Inside the deleteAttachment, how can i get the anchor tag. Sending this to the method, sends the window element to the method.
function deleteAttachment(ancElement){
//Jquery operation on acnElement
}
Please helop me out.
I would recommend a slightly different approach, since what you're trying to do is a bit old.
assuming you already loaded jQuery, here we go:
<a id="myFirstLink" href="someHref" />
<a class="otherLinks" href="secondHref" />
<a class="otherLinks" href="thirdHref" />
<script>
$(function() {
$('#myFirstLink, .otherLinks').click( function(event) {
// stops the browser from following the link like it would normally would
event.preventDefault();
// do something with your href value for example
alert( $(this).attr('href') );
});
});
</script>
So basically what you can do is this: simply generate all your anchors like you would normally would and apply the same class name to each of them - in my example the class would be "otherLinks".
After that, all your links will be handled by that anonymous function.
Use the onclick handler:
<a onclick="deleteAttachment(this)">
or, the cleanest and most accepted method nowadays, have just the raw link in the HTML:
<a id="deleteAttachment">
and add the click event programmatically, in a separate script block, on DOM load:
document.getElementByID("deleteAttachment").onclick =
function() { ... you can use "this" here .... }
you must set its ID attribute
<a id="myAnchor" style="border:0px;" href="javascript:deleteAttachment('myAnchor');"/>
then use jquery to find it
function deleteAttachment(ID)
{
var MyAnchor = $('#'+ID);
}
My code is:
<input class="button" type="button" value="Mark" onClick="doCheck('mark');" \>
I want to make it using an
<a>
link. Is it possible to do this? I only know how linking to another page.
Use Like that
<a class="button" href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="doCheck('mark');" >Mark</a>
or this way
<a class="button" href="javascript:doCheck('mark')" >Mark</a>
< a href='javascript:void(null);' onclick='doCheck()' > Test </a>
<a onClick="doCheck('mark');"> Mark </a>
You can attach click handlers to any DOM element that is visible on the page. I would seperately recommend seperation of markup and javascript.
So something like.
<a id="mark">
...
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#mark").click(function() {
doCheck("mark");
});
});
</script>
Would be preferable. In this case $ is jQuery. A pure javascript solution is possible but that has a lot of boilerplate code that hides the point.
You can use the onClick attribute on any html element. So use it in your a tag or in your img tag.
This code example will execute the JavaScript without following the link:
Mark
If you want to follow the link, drop the return false; part:
Mark