change properties of dragged object

[Andy]

Hi,

I wonder if it's possible to change the properties of an object while
dragging it.

On a webpage I have icons provided with links... I'd like to prevent
dragging the icons on the desktop and opening the link from there so I
implemented the ondragstart attribute in the link (only IE).

It's of course no problem then to call any function if the event fires
(e.g. showing an alert message) but rather than that I'd like to
change the href property of the link to point to another address.

I tried ondragstart=document.getElementById('<mylinkID>').href='<newurl>'
but this didn't work...

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Andy

 

[Martin Honnen]

Andy wrote:

I wonder if it's possible to change the properties of an object while
dragging it.

On a webpage I have icons provided with links... I'd like to prevent
dragging the icons on the desktop and opening the link from there so I
implemented the ondragstart attribute in the link (only IE).

It's of course no problem then to call any function if the event fires
(e.g. showing an alert message) but rather than that I'd like to
change the href property of the link to point to another address.

<a ondragstart="this.href = '...';"