Question

I have the below element on my web page:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.fxs.dev/quote/quote.aspx" onclick="javascript:window.location='http://www.fxs.dev/quote/quote.aspx?partnumber=526-NTE3031';" return="" false;="">Request Delivery Quote</a>

I would like to try and add querystrings to the ‘url’ in the “onclick” attribute of the element.
Is there a jquery function that allows me to do edit just the “URL” part of the onclick event. Or do i just have to write my own custom function to strip and edit the onclick event code?

Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

Answer 1

Strictly speaking, the onclick attribute contains a string that’s interpreted as Javascript code. I’m aware of only two things you can do with this; execute it as Javascript, or edit is as a String. The latter would mean you would have to strip the url from it and edit it manually, I’m afraid.

I don’t quite see the reason to having a window.location= call as the only thing in the onclick of an anchor tag.. wouldn’t that be what the href attribute is for? That’s also much easier to edit with jQuery, using .attr('href','http://example.com');