Returning the hyperlink text via onclick event

I've a set of hyperlinks that represet shares on remote computers (e.g.
\\remote1\c$) displayed in an HTA. What I would like to be able to do
is have the user click on a hyperlink and that share is opened in
Windows Explorer.

Now, I know how to call a vbscript/jscript from a hyperlink with the
onclick event but, how using that sub, do I fetch the text of the
calling hyperlink? Or, even better, is it better to pass the text of
hyperlink to the sub as part of the onclick event?

Cheers

Michael
Sat Mar 18 11:27:43 CST 2006

Ginolard wrote:
> I've a set of hyperlinks that represet shares on remote computers
> (e.g. \\remote1\c$) displayed in an HTA. What I would like to be
> able to do is have the user click on a hyperlink and that share is
> opened in Windows Explorer.
>
> Now, I know how to call a vbscript/jscript from a hyperlink with the
> onclick event but, how using that sub, do I fetch the text of the
> calling hyperlink? Or, even better, is it better to pass the text of
> hyperlink to the sub as part of the onclick event?
>
> Cheers

<a href='\\server\share' onclick='vbscript:myfunction(me.href)'>blah</a>


funtion myfunction(share)
myfunction = false 'to cancel default action
'more code to actually run "explorer.exe " & share
end function


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Michael Harris
Microsoft MVP Scripting