how to reference text in javascript function

Try this - just had to implement a similar solution yesterday although I haven't tested this one!

<a href="javascript:doSubmit(this.innerHTML,myParameter);">the rain in spain</a>

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flipz, close but sorry, your solution gave "undefined". Personally, I think your solution *should* work, but alas

nizsmo - that worked! Thanks.

erm....jmarkfoley:

did you get our names back to front? or did you just accept the solution that didn't work?

No objections here - nizsmo should be awarded the points.

Hi, just to clarify:

the reason why "this.innerHTML" will return "undefined" in flipz's example ist that *inside the href* of the link, "this" refers to the *window element*, not to the link. Easy to test - here
    <a href="javascript:alert(this);">Who is "this"?</a>
Firefox will alert "[object Window]", and this
    <a href="javascript:alert(this.location);">Who is "this"?</a>
will alert the window's location.

I would do it differently - use the onClick instead of the href for the javascript (it's always a good idea). "This" will work as expected here:

<a href="#"  onClick="doSubmit(this.innerHTML, myParameter); return false;">the rain in spain</a>

(you might not need "return false")

nizmo: sorry, I must have accidentally selected the wrong answer. I'll fix that now.

TName, your idea is pretty good too and I may keep it in mind for the future, but nizmo beat you to the punch this time and I've already implemented his idea.

Thanks all, sorry for messing up.

no problem thanks flipz and jmarkfoley :)