Question

I want to get href attribute when a use clicks on a URL.

I’ve tried with:

var e = clickedElement || window.event;
var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
alert(t.href); 

This is working fine in Chrome and Firefox, but there’s a problem with IE; its give an error null.

What is possible solution to get href from event object?

Answer 1

Depends what clickedElement is, given that its either the event object argument placeholder or a this argument;

function event_obj(event) {
    if (!event) var event = window.event;
    var element = event.target || event.srcElement;
    alert(element.href);
    return false;
}
function element_obj(element) {
    alert(element.href)
    return false;
}
.
.
<a href=".." onclick="return event_obj();">foo</a>
<a href=".." onclick="return element_obj(this);">bar</a>