Question

I have a link, that when I click it calls a javascript function with a string argument. This string is actually an a-tag+script-tag, like:

<a>..</a><script>...</scipt>

which displays a video file.

So anyways, the javascript function is supposed to create that code, and make the video show on the page, but what shows up when I press the link is a string of the code, so its showing as text (but part of it is a hyperlink) and not executing to become the video.

Anyone know why?

Its weird, because if I copy the code (which displays as text), and paste it in the editor like normal, then the video shows…

<a title="Click to Show Video" href='javascript:void(0);' onclick="switchFunc('{$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name]}');">
    <div dir="{@Direction}" class="ms-rtestate-field">
      <xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
    </div>
</a>




<script type="text/javascript"> 
  function switchFunc(source) {
    document.getElementById('videoContainer').innerHTML = source;
  }  
</script>

<div id="videoContainer">    </div>

Answer 1

As I said in the comment I suspect that your attribute is being encoded, so you could try the following:

<a title="Click to Show Video" href='javascript:void(0);' >
<xsl:attribute name="onclick">switchFunc('<xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>');</xsl:attribute>
    <div dir="{@Direction}" class="ms-rtestate-field">
      <xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
    </div>
</a>