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• dp Members

  August 2009

  The issue here is with assigning DOM objects and their properties to sahi variables and for such assignments we should use the _set() API. And the script that you used, from the For Loop example, is the one that is clearly documented as "DO NOT USE". It is given in the document to show us an example of a common MISTAKE
  
  You will get an example that meets your requirement from the following thread
  
  http://sahi.co.in/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1028
• hari19 Members

  August 2009

  Thanks for the pointer!
  
  What I want to do is to get the value of the href for each of these links.
  
  When running the following code
  

  <browser>
  function getLinks(){
      var links = window.document.links;
      var store = [];
      for (var i=0; i<links.length; i++){
          store[store.length] = links[i].href;
      }
      return store;
  }
  </browser>
  
  _set($links, getLinks());
  
  for (var $j=0; $j<$links.length; $j++){
  _log($links[$j]);
  }
  

  
  I get

  http://localhost:8180/myApp/list.jsp
  http://localhost:8180/myApp/index.jsp
  http://localhost:8180/myApp/list2.jsp
  http://localhost:8180/myApp/page1.jsp
  

  
  where as if I check the Page Source I can see

  <a href="/myApp/list.jsp" />
  <a href="/myApp/index.jsp" />
  <a href="/myApp/list2.jsp" />
  <a href="/myApp/page.jsp" />
  

  
  i.e. the value of the urls for the href attribute are relative in the source whereas links[$i].href gives me the absolute url.
  
  Is there a way for me to get the actual value for href attribute instead of the full link ?
• narayan Administrators

  August 2009

  In your case, you may be able to use
  

  store[store.length] = links[i].pathname;
  // pathname instead of href, but this will work only if your urls are absolute (ie. start with /).
  

  
  For relative urls, this the behaviour:
  
  If the url of your page is "http://localhost:8180/abcd/index.htm";
  
  and your link is
  

  <a href="link1.jsp">link1</a>
  

  
  link.href = "http://localhost:8180/abcd/link1.jsp";
  link.pathname = "/abcd/link1.jsp";
  link.attributes["href"].value = "link1.jsp" (in firefox)
  link.attributes["href"].value = "http://localhost:8180/abcd/link1.jsp"; (in IE)
  
  Regards,
  Narayan
• hari19 Members

  August 2009

  thanks again!