Question

I have a page where users see this anchor…

<a href="javascript:launchSomething("1", "2", "1")">Test</a>

Is it possible to execute/call launchSomething(.....) function without having the user to click it? If the params were fixed values then I could just do something like …

//on document.ready() {
//  launchSomething( .... );  
//}

but the web page is generated dynamically and these params change too so what do I need to do to trigger it automatically once the web page has loaded?

thanks for help.

UPDATE

I have just got the markup changed to

<a class="click1" href="javascript:launchSomething('1', '2', '1')">Test</a>

so it always has a class “click1”

Answer 1

You can do this by dynamically generating an attribute for your links:

foreach ($rows as $row) {
    echo '<a class="mylink" data-id=\''.$row['id'].'\'>Test </a>'; 
}

You can then bind this as the click handler for your link:

$('.mylink').click(function(){
    launchSomething($(this).data('id'));
});

To invoke the handler for a specific link, you could use:

$('.mylink[data-id="someID"]').click();