onClick method question (this.href and document.locati on.href)

[yogesh.bhardwaj]

Hello all

I am trying to modify the link URL when a user clicks on the link.
Following is the code:

<a onClick="docume nt.location.hre f=modifyURL(thi s.href);"
href="SOME_DYNA MIC_URL" %>Link</a>

The javascript function, modifyURL(href) , works fine and returns the
desired URL, but for some reason, the value of 'href' is not getting
overwritten with the value returned from the js function. It works fine
if I use the following code:

<a onClick="this.h ref=modifyURL(t his.href);" href="SOME_DYNA MIC_URL"
%>Link</a>

But the reason I'm trying to use document.locati on instead is because
of an IE bug. The string 'Link' actually contains the character '@', if
I use this.href, the URL will be formed perfectly, but right before the
page redirects to the new location, the whole URL will be printed on
the page (replacing the string 'Link'). This "bug" is overcome by using
document.locati on, but then the URL is not getting updated. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot
-Yogesh

[Lee]

yo************* @gmail.com said:

Hello all

I am trying to modify the link URL when a user clicks on the link.
Following is the code:

<a onClick="docume nt.location.hre f=modifyURL(thi s.href);"
href="SOME_DYN AMIC_URL" %>Link</a>

You're telling the browser to do two things that conflict.
1) set document.locati on.href to some URL
2) follow the link to "SOME_DYNAMIC_U RL"

You can cancel action #2 by having the onClick handler return false.

onclick="docume nt.location.hre f=modifyURL(thi s.href);return false"

[yogesh.bhardwaj]

Great! that works. Thanks Lee.

-Yogesh

Lee wrote:

yo************* @gmail.com said:

Hello all

I am trying to modify the link URL when a user clicks on the link.
Following is the code:

<a onClick="docume nt.location.hre f=modifyURL(thi s.href);"
href="SOME_DYN AMIC_URL" %>Link</a>

You're telling the browser to do two things that conflict.
1) set document.locati on.href to some URL
2) follow the link to "SOME_DYNAMIC_U RL"

You can cancel action #2 by having the onClick handler return false.

onclick="docume nt.location.hre f=modifyURL(thi s.href);return false"