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1. greasypigstudios
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello all,

   I'm developing a site for a client and what he wants requires all links in the posts to have javascript attached to it automatically.

   It goes something like this. Let's say in the post he creates a link with the name of LINKNAME. Here's what needs to happen automatically:

   <a href="URL" onMouseOver="setReadOut(LINKNAME)">LINKNAME</a>

   Where the javascript gets added automatically when he publishes the page and the LINKNAME becomes a variable passed to the javascript.

   Any takers?

2. ianatkins
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Jquery would be perfect, if your not familiar with it check it out.

   <script type="text/javascript">
   $(document).ready(function() { // run when the document is loaded
       $("a").click(function () { // bind a click function to all links
       	linkname = $(this).val(); // get the link name
           setReadOut(linkname); // run your function
         });
    });
   </script>

   jquery.com

3. greasypigstudios
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   quick question on this:

   First, I modified it to .mouseenter instead of .click

   Secondly, setReadOut() needs to take strings enclosed in ' ' so it would have to return a function like setReadOut('link name')

   It seems to not be working for this?

4. greasypigstudios
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   So i just tested and with hyperlinks and instead of

   linkname = $(this).val();

   should be

   linkname = $(this).text();

   To take the text of the hyperlink.

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