I want to track clicks on the following button/link with Google Tag Manager. I created a trigger in Google Tag Manager that triggers when the element_id = 100. This works fine, except that when I click exactly on the text, it doesn't do anything, the link looks like a button, with the text in the middle of it. I can't change anything to the html or css, otherwise I can think of multiple things, so I need to find a solution without changing the html. Also, the 'myclass' class and the 'label' class get used in other elements.
<a class="myclass" id="100" href="http://www.url.com">
<span class="label">Text</span>
</a>
Anyone an idea?
Thanks a lot,
The following workaround worked:
Create trigger when element text contains "Text". This will trigger events on the button and the label on the button, of all buttons with "Text" as label.
Create tag for that trigger that checks with simple javascript if either the id of the current element = 100, which will happen when you click the button but not the label, or that the id of the parent = 100, which happens when you click the label. You can get the element that triggered the tag using the built-in variable "Click Element". Which you need to access the parent element.
Technically, you shouldn't have a CSS ID that starts with (or is) a number, so not sure if your code example is accurate or not. Whatever the case, you're probably better off using "matches CSS selector" so that you don't need to use any custom JS.
If indeed your HTML uses id="100", then the above will work. If it's anything else that doesn't start with a number, then you can use
#whatever > span
Related
I'm struggling to get the contact ref to work from different pages.
Basically for every product a different detail reference is provided (see 4867820 below).
I would like to create a button which links to the #contact id for every page on the website.
Basically if I put a link on the button including the reference, this works perfectly.
http://www.mywebsite/product/4867820#contact
However I am wondering if I can create something similar where the button links to the contact id on the same page without using the reference number.
http://www.mywebsite/product/this page#contact
So basically my question is how do I link to only #contact on this page without the reference numbers, so I can create 1 button on the page template.
Regards,
Assuming it will always point to the same page as the button:
a) If you are able to use anchor tags instead of buttons (and CSS-style them to look like buttons), you can simply point the anchor's href attribute to the section name.
It works like a relative link, just appending the href to current URL. Like so:
Contact Here
Or b) if you have to use only a <button> or <input> element specifically, you will need to use javascript to set the location in onclick handler of the button. For details on that see: Javascript inline onclick goto local anchor
I am trying to click a button within a table on a webpage within IE, the source of the button shows:
<input type="image" src="img/testimg.png" onclick="picture_return(this,'92b84574a336a090618f151b6fc821cf:5','http://testwebpage.com/in/834');" value="Test Web Button">
This is a part of a large table with multiple <td> within the source, this is within another table which is then within the following class:
<div class="section_client_dnBox">
I tried to go through a few of the items within the class by using the following VBA code:
IE.Document.getElementsByClassName("section_client_dnBox")(0).Click
However, had no luck as (0) didn't press anything and anything larger ie, (1) gave me an error. So my question now is basically, is there any way of clicking the button using something simple such as reffering to it's value within the table (value="Test Web Button")?
From my experience, you need to look at the tag name rather than the class name. This is an example of the code I generally use when finding buttons.
For Each MyHTML_Element In document.getElementsByTagName("input")
If MyHTML_Element.Type = "submit" Then
MyHTML_Element.Click: Exit For
End If
Next
You might be able to change the . type to = "image". I too am just learning how to use IE automation in VBA so I am not a champ at it either. I hope that helps.
CSS selector:
It is far simpler to use a CSS selector of input[value='Test Web Button']. No loop required.
It says get element with input tag having attribute value having value = 'Test Web Button'. "[]" means attribute.
.querySelector method of document is how you apply the selector.
CSS query:
VBA:
ie.document.querySelector("input[value='Test Web Button']").Click
In my AngularJS project I have an account details page where you can change your personal account information. This page allows for multiple phone numbers and e-mailaddresses to be supplied. Using mouse input (or tabbing to buttons and pressing them with space bar) works perfectly, however I'd like to add the convenience of the enter key pressing the 'logical' buttons.
My form looks like (accidentally forgot to translate a few items):
A simplified version of the HTML for the form can be found on PasteBin, I've mainly removed the directives for managing the lists.
All buttons are <button> elements except for the cancel button which an <a> to the previous page, and the submit button is <button type="submit">.
When selecting any text box and pressing enter, the first (non-disabled) <button> element is 'clicked'. Meaning if I would change the last name, hit enter, the first phone number would be removed.
When you're in a new entry of phone numbers or e-mailaddresses (the row with the green + button) it should click that button, and if it's disabled do nothing.
When you're in any other text box on the form it should hit the save button, and also if the save button's disabled, do nothing.
Both buttons will be disabled based on form validation.
There'd be no trouble in changing the type of a button from button to submit if that'd help.
I would preferably have an all HTML solution, using just semantics, but I doubt that's really possible. So the logical alternative would be to use an AngularJS directive.
Please do not provide a jQuery or plain JavaScript solution relying on IDs or something like that. I don't want to hack my way around AngularJS, rather embrace it.
In the meantime I've worked on a directive that allows me to declare what I've called 'submit scopes'.
In essence you have actions (inputs) and targets (buttons), they're bound through a service by a key you can assign in the template. To avoid keys from clashing and from simple annoying work you can create a submit-scope which will cause it's children to prepend a unique key to the value they're accessing.
Within a submit-scope you can still override an action to use a global key instead by setting the attribute global-submit="true".
Example code:
<div submit-scope>
<input type="text" submit-action />
<button type="button" submit-target>Pressing enter in the above field will click this button.</button>
</div>
You can view the entire source code and a slightly larger example on Plnkr.
I just tried to replace
<button>Cancel</button>
with
<input type="button" value="Cancel">
and it seems to work correctly...
I have a link which opens a table on the same page if user clicks on the link. What I want to know is that is there another way to link on the same page rather than doing this:
[Open Grid]
This is because in the url it displays # at the end of the url so I want to know is there another way to link on the same page than href="#".
Thanks
Why even use an <a> tag if you are just binding an event handler to the element. Just use a <span> and style it. You can even give it cursor:pointer if you want that link feel/look
just return false in javascript and the link will not be followed when clicked, but you can still open your tables using js, as i suspect you do right now
as I understand you alread have some function binded to the click event of this link, right? if so you can just use href="javascript:void(0)", this way is much better, because in this case browser doesn't add a context menu items such as "Open link in new tab" or "Copy link address" to this link.
If you're using Javascript to detect when an element is clicked, you don't have to use tha anchor tag, or the href attribute.
You could do <a id="showGrid">Open Grid</a> and then something like $('a#showGrid').click(...); if using jQuery. To get the "link cursor" you can do a {cursor: pointer} in CSS. It'll look the same, but you won't get that # in the browser's address bar.
I need to have a piece of text, which looks like a link but actually only calls a handler when clicked. I've first wanted to use an Anchor for that but most website say to not use an anchor if it doesn't have a href, i.e. point to a URL.
So, what's the (semantically) correct way to do this in GWT?
Use a label and style it like an anchor
<g:Label ui:field="theLabelName" />
If you want to fire a history event, use the Hyperlink widget http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/1.5/com/google/gwt/user/client/ui/Hyperlink.html
If you just want to fire a random event.. not related to history, use a label like Jan mentioned.
new HTML("My Clickable Text");
Then add the click handler to the HTML