A href needs two javascript statements
Just a quick one.
I have an anchored list and need two events to happen when someone clicks on the link. Both of them involve href.
The first is for href="#1" to focus the user to the specified page area.
The second is to invoke a javascript function.
Code:
<ul>
<li><a href="#1""javascript:highlightCode('1')">TEXT TEXT</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="1">
</div>I know anchors allow multiple javascript statements but i don't know how to use javascript to focus on a specific area in the document before the script is executed.
Thanks in advance
Greg K posted this at 16:06 — 18th August 2009.
He has: 2,145 posts
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Keep the #1 as the href (that is what it s really there for), and run actual javascript from the onclick attribute:
<a href="#1" onclick="highlightCode('1');">TEXT TEXT</a>If you need multiple Javascript calls them selves, you can separate then with a semicolon, or create a new function that calls them both.
One added feature of using the onclick, it will check to see what value is returned by the javascript call. If it gets a "false" value, it will not process the href portion.
<a href="/regularlink.php" onclick="return FormNotUpdated();">TEXT TEXT</a>If "FormNotUpdated" returns true it will follow the link, otherwise it will not go anywhere.
-Greg
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