Including both href and onclick to HTML tag

You already have what you need, with a minor syntax change: <a href=”www.mysite.com” onclick=”return theFunction();”>Item</a> <script type=”text/javascript”> function theFunction () { // return true or false, depending on whether you want to allow the `href` property to follow through or not } </script> The default behavior of the <a> tag’s onclick and href properties is … Read more

How can I get href links from HTML using Python?

Try with Beautifulsoup: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import urllib2 import re html_page = urllib2.urlopen(“http://www.yourwebsite.com”) soup = BeautifulSoup(html_page) for link in soup.findAll(‘a’): print link.get(‘href’) In case you just want links starting with http://, you should use: soup.findAll(‘a’, attrs={‘href’: re.compile(“^http://”)}) In Python 3 with BS4 it should be: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import urllib.request html_page = urllib.request.urlopen(“http://www.yourwebsite.com”) … Read more

Why is it bad practice to use links with the javascript: “protocol”?

The execution context is different, to see this, try these links instead: <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2479557/javascript:alert(this.tagName)”>Press me!</a> <!– result: undefined –> <a href=”#” onclick=”alert(this.tagName)”>Press me!</a> <!– result: A –> javascript: is executed in the global context, not as a method of the element, which is usually want you want. In most cases you’re doing something with or … Read more

HTML tag want to add both href and onclick working

You already have what you need, with a minor syntax change: <a href=”www.mysite.com” onclick=”return theFunction();”>Item</a> <script type=”text/javascript”> function theFunction () { // return true or false, depending on whether you want to allow the `href` property to follow through or not } </script> The default behavior of the <a> tag’s onclick and href properties is … Read more

href syntax : is it okay to have space in file name

The src attribute should contain a valid URL. Since space characters are not allowed in URLs, you have to encode them. You can write: <img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4172579/buttons/bu%20hover.png” /> But not: <img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4172579/buttons/bu+hover.png” /> Because, as DavidRR rightfully points out in his comment, encoding space characters as + is only valid in the query string portion of … Read more