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Calling javascript from sifr replaced anchor tags?

Answer 1

A:

Have you tried using the .live method? Live method docs

$("#navigation ul li a").live('click', function(e){
//Code here
});

It may be a case of hacking around a little, maybe adding the events to the .sifr-replaced elements. I haven't used sifr in a while so my memory is a little rusty on what it inserts.

Maybe post a sample of the generated HTML.

Hope that helps.

Nooshu 2009-07-04 00:44:21

Answer 2

+2 A:

According to 626595 and 801642, the click event doesn't get propagated out. If you're using sIFR 3, there's an onRelease callback you can pass into sIFR.replace(), which gets given a FlashInteractor object. From there you can use getAncestor() to get access to the replaced element.

So, your code will probably look something like the following. (this is untested by me)

sIFR.replace(futura, {
    /* the rest of your replace params */
    selector: '#navigation ul li',
    transparent:true,
    onRelease: function(fi) { liClick( fi.getAncestor() ); }
});

function liClick(li) {
    var $li = $(li),
        $a = $(li).find('a');
    //$li points at a jQuery'd list item
    //$a points at the original anchor
}

Mark Wubben's answer in this forum post was very enlightening for getAncestor and onRelease

Dan F 2009-07-04 07:06:04

Nice! That helps a lot. Is there a way to cancel the default action of the anchor tag then (event.preventDefault or return false) in this context?

Typeoneerror 2009-07-04 14:56:13

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure, I've not used sIFR with links before. There's a couple of handy looking callbacks at http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr3/JavaScript%2BMethods - modifyContentString or modifyContent could probably be used to replace the links with spans before sIFR uses them, that way they'll not end up as navigation elements in the movie. It's worth a shot :-)

Dan F 2009-07-04 15:32:10

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