Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / July 2005

Ugh... again, I do this thing with text properties.

.text won't work.

That, and the ampersand *should* be escaped into an HTML entity
(&). You *may* also need to do the same with the equal sign (not
really sure, but = will do it).

onClick="location.href='/loggingScript.php?url='+
   this.href+'&text='+this.innerHTML;return(false);"

Be advised that this will include any HTML between the <a> and </a>
tags as part of the link text, and that innerHTML isn't part of any
written standards.

The more complicated solution is to implement a function:

function load( href, text ) {
   location.href =
       '/loggingScript.php?url=' + href + '&text=' +
       text.replace( /<.*?>/g, '' );

   return false;
}

and an onlick:
   onclick="return(load(this.href,this.innerHTML))"

Though HTML *entities* (&thing; constructs) within the link text will
not be converted.

This will also still break any other onclick code you may have wanted
to wrap in your <a> tags.
For those, use:
   onclick="old_onclick_code_here;return(load(...

et cetera.

Thank you for this suggestion as it was the basis for a simple
solution to my project needs.  Within the scope of the project, some
security concerns raised by another respondent were considered but
dismissed.

function doit(obj)
{
    location.href='logger.php?url='+obj.href+'&text='+obj.text;
    return(false);
}

<a href="foobar.html"
onClick="return(doit(this))"