> From: SteelSoftware
>
> I'm having trouble with a bit of jQuery. It seems that if I include
> the following lines into my code, the page follows the link that i'm
> clicking instead of staying on the same page:
>
> var $ref = $("#calendar .#navleft").attr("href").text();
> $("#calendar .nav").attr("href", $ref.substring(0,
> ($ref.length-1)).append('1'));
>
> What this should do is find the HREF of the anchor and change the last
> character to a 1. I have to do this twice per query (as there are two
> links to be changed). Firebug tells me the JS is fine, but I believe
> it's something to do with the presence of the substring which makes
> return false fail.
Could you post a link to a test page? It's pretty hard to tell what the
problem might be from your code snippet.
Hmm... I do see a problem (unnecessary parentheses removed for clarity):
$ref.substring( 0, $ref.length-1 ).append( '1' )
Strings don't have an append() method. That code will throw an exception.
Doesn't Firebug complain about that? The exception will stop JavaScript
execution, which could be your problem right there.
A simpler way to code that would be:
$ref.slice( 0, -1 ) + '1'
Whoa... Backing up a bit... The first line of code looks wrong too:
var $ref = $("#calendar .#navleft").attr("href").text();
What kind of selector is ".#navleft"? I don't think that would work. Also,
when you get the "href" attribute, you're getting a text string. Strings
don't have a .text() method either. So that first line of code will throw an
exception.
Maybe you should describe in English exactly what you want to do. :-)
-Mike
