Question

I want to parse an html document after it has loaded and discover all the links that the onmousedown event is set for them – how do I do that?

Thanks

Alex

Answer 1

While you can’t do this directly, you can create an array of elements with the onmousedown property by using a couple of inbuilt functions.

// get all anchor tags
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
// empty array to store matches in
var matches = [];

// loop through all anchors
for (var i = 0, len = anchors.length; i < length; i++)
{
    // if there is an onmousedown function, add it to the array
    if (typeof anchors[i].onmousedown === 'function')
    {
         matches.push(anchors[i]);
    }
}