Question

is there a way to click marker created by OpenLayers.Marker() to be able to redirect to another link.

i have tried

var marker = new OpenLayers.Marker(position, icon.clone());

marker.events.register("click", map, function(e) {
   location.href = "http:www.google.com"
});

by doing so, i am able to have a click event when i click the marker and redirects me to http://www.google.com. But what i am interested to know is, am i able to set the url directly to the marker when i create the marker in the first place?

Answer 1

You should be able to add any property to your marker like this:

marker.URL = "http://www.google.com/";

Then your event handler can be written once like this:

function linkHandler(e) {
    location.href = this.URL;
}

marker.events.register("click", marker, linkHandler);

Note that the “map” parameter in the marker.events.register call was changed to “marker”.