Tag Name: <a2:a />

Description

Render a HTML href element that when clicked calls a URL via remote XMLHttpRequest

A tag that creates a HTML <a href='' /> that when clicked calls a URL remote XMLHttpRequest call via the dojo framework. The result from the URL is executed as JavaScript. If a "listenTopics" is supplied, it will publish a 'click' message to that topic when the result is returned.

Examples

  <a:a id="link1" theme="ajax" href="/DoIt.action" errorText="An error ocurred" showErrorTransportText="true"> <img border="none" src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/delete.gif"/> <a:param name="id" value="1"/> </a:a>  

Results in

  <a dojoType="BindAnchor" evalResult="true" id="link1" href="/DoIt.action?id=1" errorHtml="An error ocurred" showTransportError="true"></a>  

Here is an example that uses the postInvokeJS. This example is in altSyntax=true:

  <a:a id="test" theme="ajax" href="/simpeResult.action" preInvokeJS="confirm(\'You sure\')"> A </a:a>  

Attributes

Name

Required

Default

Type

Description

id false   String The id to assign the component
notifyTopics false   Object/String Topic names to post an event to after the remote call has been made
preInvokeJS false   String A javascript snippet that will be invoked prior to the execution of the target href. If provided must return true or false. True indicates to continue executing target, false says do not execute link target. Possible uses are for confirm dialogs.
theme false   String The theme to use for the element. This tag will usually use the ajax theme.
href false   String The URL to call to obtain the content
errorText false   String The text to display to the user if the is an error fetching the content
showErrorTransportText false false Boolean when to show the error message as content when the URL had problems
afterLoading false   String Javascript code that will be executed after the content has been fetched
openTemplate false   Object/String Set template to use for opening the rendered html.
templateDir false   Object/String The template directory.
template false   Object/String The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
cssClass false   Object/String The css class to use for element
cssStyle false   Object/String The css style definitions for element ro use
title false   Object/String Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
disabled false   Object/String Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
label false   Object/String Label expression used for rendering a element specific label
labelposition false   Object/String define label position of form element (top/left)
requiredposition false   Object/String define required position of required form element (left|right)
name false   Object/String The name to set for element
required false false Boolean If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
tabindex false   Object/String Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
value false   Object/String Preset the value of input element.
onclick false   Object/String Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick false   Object/String Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown false   Object/String Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup false   Object/String Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover false   Object/String Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove false   Object/String Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout false   Object/String Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onfocus false   Object/String Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onblur false   Object/String Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress false   Object/String Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown false   Object/String Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup false   Object/String Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onselect false   Object/String Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
onchange false   Object/String Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
accesskey false   Object/String Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html element
tooltip false String Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig false String Set the tooltip configuration

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