value to hyperlink

[jjmusicpro]

how can i add a value to a hyperlink?

 

i am running ajax, and wanted to pass the value of the hyperlink to ajax...

 

this is what i have now...

 

<a href="" onClick="showHint(this.value)">Click 1</a>[code]

[/code]

[Daniel0]

Anchors cannot have a value. You can use the title attribute instead though.

[jjmusicpro]

i tried this

 

<a href="" onClick="showHint(this.value)" title="Value 1">Value 1</a>

 

but it didnt work

 

this works, if i put it in a drop down box..

 

<option value="Value 1">Value 1</option>

[Zhadus]

My knowledge is limited to this subject. But it seems that if you are going to be using title, you should change it from value to title as well.

e.g.

<a href="" onClick="showHint(this.title)" title="Value 1">Value 1</a>

[jjmusicpro]

Yeah, i just want to be able to pass the value of the hyperlink to my ajax script

[Daniel0]

Yeah, i just want to be able to pass the value of the hyperlink to my ajax script

 

As I said... anchors do not have a "value". The code Zhadus provided you with works.

[ToonMariner]

<a href="/url/to/current/script.php?var=1" title="Value 1" onclick="return showHint(this.href);">Value 1</a>

 

with this javascript...

 

function showHint(val)
{
var urldata = val.slice(val.indexOf('?'));
var varvals = urldata.split('=');
alert('Value is ' + varvals[1]);
return false;
}

 

Now you could make this kind of javscript even less invasive by using javascript to add the onclick eventhandler- this is difficult in ie as you would have to faff about for hours simply because someone at Microsoft implemented their addevent fucntionality on a friday afternoon - they got to a point where it actually did something and said 'eureka! - time for the pub' they couldn't be bothered to check if it was useful or not....