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Questions tagged [onclick]

An event which occurs when user clicked an object. It is a combination of two events, that is, "onmousedown" and "onmouseup".

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HTML anchor tag with Javascript onclick event

On using Google I found that they are using onclick events in anchor tags. In more option in google header part, it looks like normal a tag, but onclicking it doesn't get redirected but opened a menu. Normally when using
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Execute PHP function with onclick

I am searching for a simple solution to call a PHP function only when a-tag is clicked. PHP: function removeday() { ... } HTML: Delete UPDATE: the html and PHP code are in the same PHP file
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$(document).click() not working correctly on iPhone. jquery

This function works perfectly on IE, Firefox and Chrome but when on the iPhone, it will only work when clicking on a . Clicking on the page (anywhere but on a img) wont fire the event. $(document).ready(function () { …
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how to pass this element to javascript onclick function and add a class to that clicked element

I had an html navigation code as below function Data(string) { //1. get some data from server according to month year etc., //2. unactive all the remaining li's and make the current clicked element active by adding "active" class to the…
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Get the contents of a table row with a button click

I need to extract the details of each column in my table. For example, column "Name/Nr.". The table contains a number of addresses The very last column of each row has a button that lets a user choose a listed address. Problem: My code only picks…
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javascript get x and y coordinates on mouse click

I have a little div tag that when I click on it (onClick event), it will run the printMousePos() function. These are the HTML tags:
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onclick or inline script isn't working in extension

This seems to be the easiest thing to do, but it's just not working. In a normal browser the .html and .js files works perfectly, but in the Chrome/Firefox extension the onClick function is not performing what it's supposed to do. .js file: function…
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OnClick vs OnClientClick for an asp:CheckBox?

Does anyone know why a client-side javascript handler for asp:CheckBox needs to be an OnClick="" attribute rather than an OnClientClick="" attribute, as for asp:Button? For example, this works:
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android View with View.GONE still receives onTouch and onClick

This is confusing me: As far as I have read, a view with setVisibility(View.GONE); should not receive any more touch- or click events. My layout has two parts, which will be visible or gone so that only one of them is visible and usable at a time…
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Changing button text onclick

When I click on myButton1 button, I want the value to change to Close Curtain from Open Curtain.HTML: Javascript: function change(); { …
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How to switch to new window in Selenium for Python?

I am working on selenium automation project using Python. I am facing an issue, which is handling multiple browser windows. Scenario is as follows. When I click a link on the home page, a new window opens. In the newly opened window I cannot perform…
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onClick not triggered on LinearLayout with child

I've got a custom LinearLayout with a smaller TextView child. I'd like to be able to click the area not covered by the TextView, so I set clickable=true and an onclicklistener to the LinearLayout, but onClick is not triggered. If I set the onclick…
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jQuery function not binding to newly added dom elements

Here's index.html: