using <a href="a(this")>

Oliver Saunders

can someone please tell me why everytime i try and pass this to a js
function i can't seem to use it for anything:

<html>
<head>
<script language="javas cript">
function a(fromlink) {
alert(fromlink. nodeName); // outputs undefined
alert(fromlink. nodeType); // outputs undefined
alert(fromlink. parentNode); // outputs undefined

// i might as well be writing:
alert(fromlink. blahblah_not_a_ member);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Some body text<br />
<a href="javascrip t:a(this)">This is a link</a>
</body>
</html>

what am i doing wrong? this is driving me mad

Oct 7 '05 #1

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Martin Honnen

Oliver Saunders wrote:

<a href="javascrip t:a(this)">This is a link</a>

You want
<a href="#"
onclick="a(this ); return false;">
Inside of an event handler the this object is the element the event
handler is attached to.
A javascript: URL in a href attribute is not an event handler.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Oct 7 '05 #2

Lee

Oliver Saunders said:

can someone please tell me why everytime i try and pass this to a js
function i can't seem to use it for anything:

<html>
<head>
<script language="javas cript">
function a(fromlink) {
alert(fromlink. nodeName); // outputs undefined
alert(fromlink. nodeType); // outputs undefined
alert(fromlink. parentNode); // outputs undefined

// i might as well be writing:
alert(fromlink. blahblah_not_a_ member);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Some body text<br />
<a href="javascrip t:a(this)">This is a link</a>
</body>
</html>

what am i doing wrong? this is driving me mad

The "javascript :" pseudo-protocol functions similarly to the "http:"
protocol, except that the new contents for the current window come
from the output of your a() function, instead of from a web server.
If the output happens to be void, then the contents are unchanged.
You're abusing this mechanism for the side-effect of executing the
function.

Your a() function executes in the context of the window whose content
it is replacing, so "this" is a reference to the window, not to the
link. You can see that if you add the line:

alert(fromlink) ;

Oct 7 '05 #3

Oliver Saunders

> You want

<a href="#"
onclick="a(this ); return false;">
Inside of an event handler the this object is the element the event handler is attached to.
A javascript: URL in a href attribute is not an event handler.
ah huh thank you.
Your a() function executes in the context of the window whose content
it is replacing, so "this" is a reference to the window, not to the
link. You can see that if you add the line:

alert(fromlink) ;

yes actually I did notice that. thanks for clearing that up.

Oct 7 '05 #4

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