Locating anchor tags

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

If you want to locate all the anchor tags relative to a webpage, it would seem that they would be found within the body of the document and in any .js file referenced by the document.

Where else, if anywhere, might they be found?

TIA

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[tgreer]

I'm not sure I quite get the question, but the DOM includes an "anchors" collection, and a "links" collection.



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[cLFlaVA]

Additionally, you could use this:

var anchorCollection = document.getElementsByTagName( "a" );

for ( var i = 0 ; i < anchorCollection.length ; i++ ) {
    // do something with each anchor
    alert( anchorCollection[ i ].href );
}

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

To better explain, this relates to a situation whereby you need to know the urls called by the webpage.

An IE object will provide the urls or hrefs called by the webpage - if there is a menu on the webpage with the urls contained in a .js file, you have to parse the .js file to recover the urls/hrefs, as there is no access via the IE object.

What would be helpful to know if a webpage might access urls/hrefs other than the two ways mentioned?

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[tgreer]

I see. You're referring to objects with their "onclick" (or either event) set to a JavaScript function, which could navigate away or change the action tag of a form, etc.

Hmmm. I think you could write a global event handler, and "inspect" all click events, for example, and then route them onward if you like, cancel them if you don't.

It's been a long time, but I think it was "window.captureEvents()" and ".routeEvents". You might google for those.



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[tgreer]

That may be a "Red Herring", sorry. You can write a global event handler, but not necessarily use it to determine WHERE a user was going.



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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Thomas

Thanks for your further responses.

I would like to think that the two types of file, the webpage and .js file, if used, would be the only locations for urls accessed by the webpage, hence the request for confirmation of the theory.

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[tgreer]

I can't think of any other... unless there is embedded media that navigates, such as Flash.



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