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Selecting the href of a child element and entering it into a hidden form element.

in Getting Started • 11 years ago

Hi, thanks in advance - total noob here.

I have a dynamically generated link in a container. I cannot add an ID to the <a> element. I would like to add the href value to the hidden form element and submit onClick. Is it possible?

<div class="container"><a href="/somelink">Link Title</a></div>

</form>

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jay.blanc..

Re: Selecting the href of a child element and entering it into a hidden form element.

11 years ago

$('form[name="aform"]').submit(function(){
var hrefValue = $('.container a').attr('href'); // get the href
$('#foo').val(hrefValue); // make foo's value the href
});

That should work.

ushan.boyd

Re: Selecting the href of a child element and entering it into a hidden form element.

11 years ago

Excellent! A thousand thank you's mr jay.blanc.. Indeed it does work, and with no fuss whatsoever. You have saved me 100 hours of work. (actually learning jquery syntax!)

Much appreciated.

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