quick a href question 2

[cajchris]

is there any way of collating all <a href> tags in the body of an html page and storing them in some kind of list.

thanks
cajchris

 

[1DMF]

what using HTML or CSS , don't think so, would be interesting to see if anyone else knows a way.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'd have to use JavaScript (forum216), or other client-side scripting language to do this.

You will not manage it with HTML alone.

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[BabyJeffy]

Sure... use the following structure:

<ul>
  <li><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.xxx.yyy">Some[/URL] link</a></li>
  <li><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.xxx.yyy">Some[/URL] link 2</a></li>
...
  <li><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.xxx.yyy">Final[/URL] link</a></li>
</ul>

By placing an ID on the <ul> you can use CSS to position it anywhere you like on the page.

You can build this up manually and save it on the page if you wanted to... a fine solution for a static web site.

You could do this server-side and generate the above code (which is probably the preferable way to do it).

If you want to do this automagically once the page has loaded, then you would have to resort to using javascript.

Cheers,
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[1DMF]

are we getting confused here.... Is this a page your writing, or a page your trying to parse some how?

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[BabyJeffy]

I think he's moved this over to the JS forum thread216-1162970 and got a resolution.

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[1DMF]

sweet nice job, when did the getby TAGNAME get released.

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[BabyJeffy]

Been around for quite some time... what'd be nice is a native document.getElementsByClassName(). Of course it's not hard to code one, but it'd be nice to have it available in the core.

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[1DMF]

if you got by class name, wouldn't that create an array of multiple elements that are all using the same class, or do you mean a way of grabbing the actual class element itself.



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

The former, and yes ;-)

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[BabyJeffy]

An array of all elements using the same class. The idea would be that you could use it like this:

var myCollection = document.getElementsByClassName('printme');
for (loop=0;loop<myCollection.length;loop++)
  myCollection[loop].style.display='block';

You currently have to parse the whole DOM and check for the classname of each.

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[1DMF]

that looks much nicer, and easier to handle

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