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kyazdani

Writing a javascript function to act in the same manner as if a html link had been clicked

in Using jQuery • 11 years ago

Hi Guys,

just wondering if someone can help me write a function?

I have a flash button in my application and I wish to call a javascript function from flash (which I know how to do) that acts in the same way as this html link would if it was clicked by a user.

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=610" class="thickbox">link</a>

It needs the href and the class to be on the link.

I'm guessing that the javascript function I'm calling is needs to be started like this:

<script>
var thickbox = function() {
}
</script>

I just don't know how to write a javascript function that will act in the same way, when called, as this html link above would behave.

Hope someone can help

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jay.blanc..

Re: Writing a javascript function to act in the same manner as if a html link had been clicked

11 years ago

$('a.thickbox').click(function(){
// handle the click here....
});

dsvick

Re: Writing a javascript function to act in the same manner as if a html link had been clicked

11 years ago

The JavaScript you need would be:

window.location = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=610";

In a function it would simply be:

function changeLocation(){
window.location = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=610";
}

Then all your flash needs to do is call that function. If there are several different locations that can be called you could do this:

function changeLocation(theLoc){
window.location = theLoc;
}

And then your flash would pass the location like this:
changeLocation("http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=610");

Hope that's what you were looking for.

Dave

kyazdani

Re: Re: Writing a javascript function to act in the same manner as if a html link had been clicked

11 years ago

Hi Dave,

your's worked on calling the html link which took me to the next page. However to get the link to show up in the iframe the class, class="thick box" needs to be passed in with the link. Is there a way to do that with this function?

Thanks again

Kaz

kyazdani

Re: Re: Writing a javascript function to act in the same manner as if a html link had been clicked

11 years ago

Thanks for your help guys found out it needs to be wrote like this...

function changeLocation(){
tb_show("","http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=610","");
}

Thanks again! :)

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