get the value of onclick with jQuery

Question

Is it possible to get the current value of the onClick attribute of an A tag via jQuery   For example  I have    lt a href  http   www google com  id  google  onclick  alert  hello    gt Click lt  a gt    I want to get the onclick code so I can store it for later use  as I ll be changing the onclick event for a little while    Is it possible to do something like   var link click       google   onclick    or   var link click       google   click    So that later on in my code I can re-apply that code  or eval   it if necessary

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I m not quite sure how to do this in jQuery    but this works   var x   document getElementById  google   attributes  for  var i in x     if  x i  name     onclick   alert x i  firstChild data       but like Harshath said it would be better if you used event listeners  as removing and adding this function back into the onclick event may be troublesome

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google   attr  onclick          However  Firebug shows that this returns a function  onclick   You can call the function later on using the following approach    new Function      google   attr  onclick       onclick               or use a RegEx to strip the function and get only the statements within it

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This works for me   var link click       google   get 0  attributes onclick nodeValue   console log link click

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Could you explain what exactly you try to accomplish  In general you NEVER have to get the onclick attribute from HTML elements  Also you should not specify the onclick on the element itself  Instead set the onclick dynamically using JQuery    But as far as I understand you  you try to switch between two different onclick functions  What may be better is to implement your onclick function in such a way that it can handle both situations       google   click function         if  situation                         else

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mkoryak is correct   But  if events are bound to that DOM node using more modern methods  not using onclick   then this method will fail   If that is what you really want  check out this question  and its accepted answer   Cheers     I read your question again  I d like to tell you this  don t use onclick  onkeypress and the likes to bind events   Using better methods like addEventListener   will enable you to      Add more than one event handler to a particular event remove some listeners selectively   Instead of actually using addEventListener    you could use jQuery wrappers like    selector   click     Cheers again

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i have never done this  but it would be done like this   var script       google   attr  onclick

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