[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread MiKiTiE
You will need to use the text() attribute to do this. so, once you do: var onclick = $('a').attr('onclick'); You then place it where you want this way: $(a).text(onclick); However, if you have several links on a page it will be better to assign it to an id. Plus, since onclick is a

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread MiKiTiE
Sorry I should have written $('a').attr('onclick',onclick); (setting the attribute value not the inner text!) On Sep 15, 9:09 am, sirrocco xavier...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say you have a : a href=# onclick='DoSomething(this);'asd/a I want to get the onclick text in a variable - something

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread sirrocco
Well .. that's the problem - i tried it like that and it didn't work. When setting the attribute back on the link, the this in DoSomething (this); is not the link, but the window. On Sep 15, 11:41 am, MiKiTiE mikiji...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry I should have written

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread MiKiTiE
Perhaps then you can extract it as text like I mentioned in my first post, then store it in a variable? As I am not sure what your function does or why it needs to be applied this way, I can't solve the problem exactly - but why not just use an event instead of an onclick in the element? That is

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread sirrocco
Perhaps then you can extract it as text like I mentioned in my first post, then store it in a variable? How do I extract it like text ? Calling the .text() method, as expected doesn't return what I need - DoSomething(this); On Sep 15, 3:30 pm, MiKiTiE mikiji...@googlemail.com wrote: Perhaps

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread MiKiTiE
Ok, I've done some tests and here is my suggestion. First of all, should just ask - I assume you are calling it after the element? Probably is obvious, but thought I'd check. Ok, here's the deal: onclick is not really an attribute but a mouse event. Therefore jQuery will take the contents as a

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread sirrocco _
Damn ... I somehow thought this would be easy to achive . The whole idea was to not change existing code Still .. if anyone has any more ideas :). Somehow it seems that this should be doable. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, MiKiTiE mikiji...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, I've done some

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread Mr Speaker
I think you need to set the context for the function to that of the link using the JavaScript call function... like: function DoSomething( ctx ){ alert( ctx.text ); } var linky = $('a'); var onclick = $('a').attr('onclick'); onclick.call(linky[0]); // Alerts 'asd' BTW: the linky[0]

[jQuery] Re: Get the onclick method of an element

2009-09-15 Thread RobG
On Sep 15, 6:09 pm, sirrocco xavier...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say you have a : a href=# onclick='DoSomething(this);'asd/a I want to get the onclick text in a variable - something like var onclick = $('a').attr('onclick'); The problem is that the onclick variable now is a function and