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Changing href on the fly

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Hi, newbie here.

I am in the process of revising a website, one of the tasks is to create a pair of buttons which, when clicked, will set the href for other buttons on the page. I have a sample code, but for some reason the target href is not being changed. When I click on "Click", then on "Target" the hi.html page is opened.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mike


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "<html>
<head>
<title>change href</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
function changeHref(xyz) {
    document.getElementById('myHref').href = "bye.html";
    return;
}
</script>
</head>


<body>
<a href="#" onClick="changeHref(this);">Click</a>

<br><br>

<a href="hi.html" ID="myHref">Target</a>

</body>
</html>
 
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Make your function explicitly return false so the click event does not "bubble up" to the href of the "click" link of some browsers.

Chris.

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Tried changing to

return(false);

Still doesn't work.
 
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Hi

[ul]
[li]For what Chris suggested, you also have to change the call in the event handler :
Code: 
[b]<a[/b] [maroon]href[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green][i]"#"[/i][/green] [maroon]onClick[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green][i]"[highlight]return[/highlight] changeHref(this);"[/i][/green][b]>[/b]Click[b]</a>[/b]
[/li]
[li]What Chris suggested is an esthetic improvement, not a correction.[/li]
[/ul]


Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/][/url]
 
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As feherke points out, it should work across the board. Or at least your example code does.

If your actual code is different, I suggest looking at the error console of your browser and see if there's anything being reported, and it would be a good idea to post the actual code here so we ma take a look.

Oh, and as a note, you aren't going to see a change in the physical code of the page if you view the source from the browser.



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I don't understand why, but today it worked. Must have been something stuck in the browser's cache.
 
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