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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Button doing work as a hot link  ??
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:36:50 -0600
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Hi:

    I'll be placing a 'hot link' on my developing page.

    But, I wish it to be a *button* (rather than an anchor <a   >) whereby I 
can capture the 'click', then do my 'click-counting' and other work, then 
send the hot-link on its way to fruition.

    I googled around and found that the following code that looks promising, 
but I couldn't get it to work.

    In IE8 nothing happened after the click. With Chrome and FF the screen 
cleared but went to sleep.

    Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong ?

    btw, I've now forgotten where I found this code :(

    Below is a stripped-down version of what I'm trying (& failing) to do.

Thank you.

-Mel Smith


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HTML:

<div id="ihoturl">
<form id="ihotlink" action="http://www.google.com">
<input type="button" onclick="gohotlink()" value="Visit the WebSite" />
</form>
</div>

JS:

function gohotlink() {
var linkobj = getobj("ihotlink") ;
linkobj.submit() ;
}

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