On Feb 8, 3:10 pm, "Smith, Allex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any time you do a:
>
> <a href="javascript:function()">link</a>
>
> You are looking for the click event.
>
> So bind to the click event with jQuery:
>
> $('a').click(function(){
> // at this point when you click on the link it is going to fire
> // this anonymous function, you still need a way to get the data
> to pass
> // as arguments for the load function. I usually handle this
> with the metadata
> // plugin, however you could easily place the data in the id
> attr, style attr or
> // a combination of the two.
> $('div#target').load('somepage.html', {v1 : var1, .... }); }
> // keep the browser from doing its default action
> return false;
>
>
>
> });
Hi, Smith:
thank you so much for your detailed instruction. so I guess 'class'
might be the one of the safest attributes to deliver these arguments,
right? :-)
Regards,
lihao(XC)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is it possible to send javascript vars TO a jquery
> function??
>
> On Feb 8, 1:02 pm, "Smith, Allex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > True. But in order to get a link like this:
> > <a href="javascript:doSomething('1234','john');>Click me</a>
>
> > Something has to generat the '1234' and 'john'
>
> > $('a') is going to iterate over each anchor link and assign the click
> > event.
>
> > One rule of thumb I like to follow for myself however is that is
> > something is easy to do without jQuery, or any other library, stick to
>
> > good old JavaScript.
>
> > By the way... I always try and stay away from the evil
> > 'javascript:function()' syntax... Degrades poorly.
>
> Hi, Smith,
>
> The plugin, Metadata, is very interesting and looks very nice.. just
> another question: is there any replacement for the
> 'javascript:function()' links besides using outside plugins, in ways of
> either Javascript or jQuery?
>
> I usually use javascript psudo links in making some AJAX calls,
> something like
>
> <div id="target"></div>
> <a href="javascript:myfunc('a','b')">AB</a>
> <a href="javascript:myfunc('c','d')">CD</a>
> .............
>
> function myfunc(var1, var2)
> {
> $('div#target').load('somepage.html', {v1 : var1, .... }); }
>
> which works pretty well so far, but since it degrades poorly, I do want
> to find a better way(or replacement) to achieve this..
>
> Many thanks. :)
> lihao(XC)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On
>
> > Behalf Of cbmtrx
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:40 AM
> > To: jQuery (English)
> > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is it possible to send javascript vars TO a
> > jquery function??
>
> > Hmm, so there's no other way to pass vars to a jquery function? This
> > also seems a tad long-winded.
>
> > It would be nice to take advantage of jquery's functionality, without
> > sacrificing efficiency! Especially for pages that are generated
> > dynamically (where class names and ids are not necessarily known).
>
> > All the same, thanks for the info.
>
> > On Feb 8, 11:44 am, "Smith, Allex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm not positive if this will be helpful, but you could try
> > > something like this using the Metadata
> > > plugin.http://plugins.jquery.com/project/metadata
>
> > > Your example:
> > > <a href="javascript:doSomething('1234','john');>Click me</a>
>
> > > Could be written like this:
>
> > > // html
> > > <a href="actionPage.html" class="{linkId:1234,
> > > linkName:'john'}">Click
>
> > > me</a>
>
> > > // javascript
> > > // you will need a click event
> > > $('a').click(function(){
> > > // using metadata plugin... snag yo data in the class attr
> > > var data = $(this).metadata();
> > > // yo... 'doSomething'
> > > doSomething(data.linkId,data.linkName);
>
> > > });
>
> > > As always... Totally untested and unapproved :)
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > On
>
> > > Behalf Of cbmtrx
> > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 8:12 AM
> > > To: jQuery (English)
> > > Subject: [jQuery] Is it possible to send javascript vars TO a jquery
>
> > > function??
>
> > > I've just barely started getting my feet wet with jquery, so please
> > > bear with this novice's question...
>
> > > With a javascript function you can accept vars like this:
>
> > > function doSomething(number, name) {
> > > //Do something with them
> > > }
>
> > > From an href in the HTML like this:
> > > <a href="javascript:doSomething('1234','john');>Click me</a>
>
> > > But I have no idea how this is accomplished with jquery as it all
> > > seems "internal" to itself (seemingly dealing only with identifying
> > > HTML tags, ids, and classes, and not user-supplied vars). I'm sure
> > > I'm
>
> > > wrong on this...
>
> > > I had started to build out a page that will be using multiple show/
> > > hide toggles for individual divs/ids and the jquery examples I was
> > > finding all seemed more long-winded than just using my original
> > > javascript function, so I'm hoping that this would considerably
> > > simplify the process, but, more importantly, keep it native to
> > > jquery's functions.
>
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