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 what jQuery is there for :-) On Sep 15, 9:50 am, sirrocco <xavier...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > $('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 like > > > > var onclick = $('a').attr('onclick'); > > > > The problem is that the onclick variable now is a function and if I > > > try to execute , this wil be the document instead of the link . > > > > How can I get only the text, so I can later reattach it to the link ?