Question

Trying to do two things:

1) Look for links that have the class “download” attached.
2) If so, add some Google Event Tracking code to the link

As a means of testing, here’s what I have thus far:

​<a href="#" class="download">Test</a>

$(document).ready(function(e) {
if ($(a).is('.download')){
        $(a).append('onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Podcasts', 'Download', 'Title']);"');
        }
}

Can’t seem to get this to work, althought I think (hope) I have the right idea. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Answer 1

$(function() {
   $('a.download').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
     var $a = $(this);
      // $a is the anchor that was clicked. you can access attributes or its text to populate the _gaq.push call below.  e.g. var text = $a.text();
     _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Podcasts', 'Download', $a.attr('href')]);
   });
});