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Asked: 2026-05-31T08:45:40+00:00

Let me preface this question by saying there may be a completely different solution

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Let me preface this question by saying there may be a completely different solution than my title so let me tell you what I am after entirely.

Basically I have a series of menu links. The href in all the links are storing jQuery functions, not URL’s (to control turn.js book script). So one of the href‘s may look like so:

<li id="menu-item-68" class="home menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-68">
  <a href="$('#primary').turn(‘page’,1);"></a>
</li>

The request is simple…on click() of a menu item i need to execute the contents of the href. My first thought was to run through each link and store a temp string of the href and then use eval() but that looks to be a bad option from what I read.

So, how can I execute the contents of my href quickly and safely?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about use the onclick event?

    <a onclick="function(){$('#primary').turn('page', 2); return false;}" href="#">Click me!</a>

    Alternately, since you’re using JQuery, you could .bind() the event:

    <script>
    $('a.clickable').bind('click', function(e){
         var pageNum = $(this).attr('data-page');
         $(#primary).turn('page', pageNum);
         return false;
    });
</script>
<body>
   <a class='clickable' data-page='2' href='#'>Click me!</a>

    Alternately, since you only have access to the href attribute, you COULD do this, which is the easy way out:

     <a href="javascript:$('#primary').turn('page', 2)">Click me!</a>
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