JavaScript (JS) href Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) href Example

JavaScript (JS) href Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) href Example

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.href=href – Allows you to retrieve or assign href for linked objects.

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for hrefuage
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DOMAnchor”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DOMAnchor
  6. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “AnchorObjectProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: AnchorObjectProperties
  7. Add HTML Page Named href to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be href
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page href.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page href.htm and select view in browser
View Example In Browser
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: href </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
 
 
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <a href="http://www.google.com" id="Google">Google</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" id="Yahoo">Yahoo</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://idealprogrammer.com" id="IdealProgrammer">IdealProgrammer</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://myqol.com" id="ProgressMonitor">ProgressMonitor</a><br /><br />
 
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // href
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.href=href  Allows you to retrieve or assign  
       //               href to linked object
 
       // Two ways to retrieve href   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
            document.write("Google - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.href);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Yahoo - Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('Yahoo').href);
 
            document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign href
 
            //   1. GetElementById
            myThirdElement = document.getElementById('IdealProgrammer');
            myThirdElement.href = "http://www.google.com";
            document.write("<br />IdealProgrammer href changed to google: ", myThirdElement.href);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myFourthElement = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[3];
            myFourthElement.href = "http://www.yahoo.com";
            document.write("<br />ProgressMonitor href changed to yahoo: ", myFourthElement.href)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>