Question

I have a link with this href:

href="javascript:foo(this);"

when I call it “this” points to the window object, not the link. How do I pass a reference to the link?

http://jsfiddle.net/xMGKz/

Edit note: The question is how to pass with href, not generally – I know about onclick!

And not copying id and make getElementById, that’s not “this”, it’s DOM search for certain element, no need to make it inline in HTML.

The anwer is: not possible.

Answer 1

When you use “javascript: …. ” in an href, you are calling this function globaly. Not in the context of the link.
You can try with:

<a href="#" onclick="foo(this); return false;">MyLink</a>

http://jsfiddle.net/xMGKz/1/