Changing onclick attribute using replace with jQuery

Question

Do someone know what is the best way to replace some string inside a onclick attribute ?
I need to get the current value and replace some text inside pa

Answer 1

sounds like a really bad idea but anyway - you can access the string value of the onlick attribute using something like that:

$('a').each(function() { this.attributes.onclick.nodeValue = this.attributes.onclick.nodeValue.replace('1', '2'); })

Answer 2

You can do this: http://jsfiddle.net/SJP7k/

var atr = $('a').attr('onclick');
var str = atr.split('1');
var natr = str.join('2');
$('a').attr('onclick',natr);

Answer 3

$('a[onclick]').attr('onclick', function(i, v){
   return v.replace(/1/g, '2');
});

http://jsfiddle.net/cj9j7/

If you need something more dynamic do not use onclick attributes, changing onclick attributes is hackish, you can use click method instead.

var param = 1;
$('a').click(function(){
   // ...

   if ('wildguess') {
     param = 1;
   } else {
     param++;
   }
})