[removed] changing the value of onclick with or without jQuery

Question

I\'d like to change the value of the onclick attribute on an anchor. I want to set it to a new string that contains JavaScript. (That string is provided to the

Answer 1

Note that following gnarf's idea you can also do:

var js = "alert('B:' + this.id); return false;";

var newclick = eval("(function(){"+js+"});");

$("a").get(0).onclick = newclick;

That will set the onclick without triggering the event (had the same problem here and it took me some time to find out).