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 function and write
it out as an event. The only alternative is to insert your "DoSomething
(this);" into a standard attribute like "title" or "alt" and then take
it from there. This way you should be able to insert it exactly as its
written and not have it converted into an event.
Hope this will help?
On Sep 15, 2:31 pm, sirrocco <xavier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >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 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 ?
