how to determine a click on a link

[yusuf]

Hi,

I am writing a greasemonkey script and I can capture the click event.
What I want to know is how do I determine that the click was on a URL
and not just a normal click. Thanks.

document.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
// event.target is the element that was clicked



alert(event.target.toString());

}, true);

 

[Hal Rosser]

Try adding an event handler to the element. onclick="yourfunction()"

 

[yusuf]

i need this to work with every URL on the page, so it would be more
efficient if i didn't need to rewrite all the links... thanks.

 

[Hal Rosser]

ok - write a little program that adds the event handler (rewrites the page)
or for that matter, you could bring it into Word and do a simple
find/replace.
=== rewriting all the links is easier than rewriting half of them.