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Asked: 2026-05-28T07:21:53+00:00

I am trying to get get zombie.js to activate a link that uses javascript.

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I am trying to get get zombie.js to activate a link that uses javascript. The page I am testing it on is:

 <html>
  <body>
  <div id="test123">
  START_TEXT
  </div>
  <a href="javascript:go()">GO</a><br/>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  go = function() {
  var el = document.getElementById("test123");
  el.innerHTML = "CHANGED";
  }
  </script>
  </body>
  </html>

The Script I am using is:

var zombie = require("zombie");
var browser = new zombie.Browser;

browser.visit( "http://localhost:8000/testpage.html",
        function() {
                browser.clickLink("GO", function(e, browser, status) {
                        var temp = browser.text("div#test123");
                        console.log("content:", temp);
                  });
});

I get the error message:

node.js:201
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
Error: Cannot load resource: javascript:go()
    at History._resource (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/history.coffee:75:15)
    at History._pageChanged (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/history.coffee:60:21)
    at History._assign (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/history.coffee:213:19)
    at Object.location (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/history.coffee:51:24)
    at Object.click (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/jsdom_patches.coffee:31:59)
    at Object.dispatchEvent (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/level2/html.js:480:47)
    at /home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/eventloop.coffee:130:16
    at EventLoop.perform (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/eventloop.coffee:121:7)
    at EventLoop.dispatch (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/eventloop.coffee:129:19)
    at Browser.dispatchEvent (/home/julian/temp/node_modules/zombie/lib/zombie/browser.coffee:220:30)

When I use

browser.evaluate("go()")

it works.
What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well it doesn’t seem to understand javascript:code hrefs. Perhaps you can get the url, remove the javascript:-section and evaluate it?

    Disclaimer: I haven’t used zombie.js myself yet.

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