Remove onlick attribute

[Pichdude]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone can help me. I have a print version of a page, displayed in a popup window. In this page I want to disable all links. My links have their "action" specified in "onclick".

Is it possible to remove that attributes somehow?

Best regards

Pichdude

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You can use "getElementsByTagName('a')" to return a collection of all links on the page, and the body "onload" event to run a function... so all you'd need to do is run a function onload to loop over all anchors, setting their "onclick" property to null.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BabyJeffy]

Sure... you can use getElementsByTagName('a') to get a collection of links on the page, then iterate through them all and set the click on them to be null...

var allLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var loop=0,max=allLinks.length; loop<max; loop++) {
  allLinks[loop].click = null;
}

That should work!

Cheers,
Jeff


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[BabyJeffy]

Ah... that'd be [!]onclick[/!] not click as I have in the code I showed.

Oops.
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[monksnake]

I was wondering about that

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[kss444]

You could in the onclick event call blur();

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You could in the onclick event call blur();

Assuming the OP wanted to stop people navigating away from his print friendly page, that would not really work.

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[Pichdude]

Thank you all very much!

On this printer friendly page I also would like to "convert" all drop-down lists to only show the selected value as a text, i.e. no selection available. Is this also possible in some nice way?

Best regards

Pichdude

 

[BabyJeffy]

I'm assuming that you now have a working solution to remove the onclicks from your page?

Ideally this new requirement would be done server-side (of course). You could also consider using a print style sheet. If you feel it needs to be don using javascript, you will need to look in to DOM traversal to parse each select node into something else (probably a text node).

Read up on methods to access and manipulate the DOM (google will have examples) then if you have specific questions, open up a new thread.

Cheers,
Jeff


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