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Using JQuery to get string value of an onclick() event

rated 0 times [ 9] [ 7] / answers: 1 / hits: 24545 / 13 Years ago, thu, march 24, 2011, 12:00:00

Wondered if there was good way to do this, thought I would post to the SO community...

There is a 3rd party web page that I have no control over how it renders, but they allow me to add JQuery.

Using the JQuery, I am creating a nav menu on the side of the page, it will be a list of links. The onclick event of these links I get from existing onclick events already on the page, but when I do a:

var linkLoc = $('#theLink').attr(onclick);

linkLoc returns:

function onclick(event) {

  handleJumpTo(com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[E471CB74A9857542804C7AC56B1F41FB]], smartform);

}

instead of what I would expect:

handleJumpTo(com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[E471CB74A9857542804C7AC56B1F41FB]], smartform);

I think JQuery is trying to get the event for binding, but I need the actual Javascript markup since I'm creating the HTML dynamically. I guess I could substring the function onclick(event) { out, but seems kind of hacky.

Any ideas of an elegant way I could get the onclick markup?

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answered 13 Years ago siena · Accepted Answer

The type of $('#theLink').attr(onclick) is a function, so you can just use that when you bind events to the links.

var linkLoc = $('#theLink').attr(onclick);

$('a#link1').live('click', linkLoc);

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/BdU6f/

You can also run other code in the click handler too, if you need:

var linkLoc = $('#theLink').attr(onclick);

$('a#link1').live('click', function(e){

    // Code...

    linkLoc(e);

});

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/BdU6f/1/