Question

i have an anchor tag as below.

<a style="border:0px" href='javascript:deleteAttachment(this);' />

Inside the deleteAttachment, how can i get the anchor tag. Sending this to the method, sends the window element to the method.

function deleteAttachment(ancElement){
    //Jquery operation on acnElement
}

Please helop me out.

Answer 1

Use the onclick handler:

<a onclick="deleteAttachment(this)">

or, the cleanest and most accepted method nowadays, have just the raw link in the HTML:

<a id="deleteAttachment">

and add the click event programmatically, in a separate script block, on DOM load:

 document.getElementByID("deleteAttachment").onclick = 
    function() {  ... you can use "this" here ....  }