Question

I am developing a mobile application using phonegap and jquery mobile. I have this function which has to pass a variable to another function. It goes something like this:

    $.each(response.records, function(i, contact) {
       var url = contact.Id;
       var newLi = $("<li><a href='javascript:dothis("+url+")'>" + (i+1) + " - " + contact.Name + " - Company "+contact.Company+"</a></li>");
           ul.append(newLi);}

I have the dothis(argument) function but it does not get called when i put in the variable “url”. When i erase the argument, it works. Please Help!

Answer 1

You need to put the url in quotes in the javascript:

var newLi = $("<li><a href=\"javascript:dothis('" +
      url +
      "')\">" + 
      (i+1) + " - " + contact.Name + 
      " - Company " + contact.Company + "</a></li>");

You might need to consider escaping the URL so that, if it contains any difficult characters, your javascript won’t break.