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try using eval function may be better<br />

<pre><code id="code-286614">&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot;&gt;
&lt;html xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Third Santor&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script&gt;
function getJulianDate(){
  return 'julian';
}
 
function popItem(num, str){
  eval(str);
} 
function getJulianDate2(){
  alert('do somethings here');
} 
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:popItem(4,'getJulianDate2()');&quot;&gt;Test Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
 
&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; onclick=&quot;popItem(4,'getJulianDate2()');return false;&quot;&gt;Recommended Test Link&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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try using eval function may be better


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Third Santor</title>
<script>
function getJulianDate(){
  return 'julian';
}
 
function popItem(num, str){
  eval(str);
} 
function getJulianDate2(){
  alert('do somethings here');
} 
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:popItem(4,'getJulianDate2()');">Test Link</a><br /><br />
 
 
<a href="#" onclick="popItem(4,'getJulianDate2()');return false;">Recommended Test Link</a>
</body>
</html>


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Thanks for your expert help!
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Welcome. Using eval on this case though is no way better.
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Welcome. Using eval on this case though is no way better.

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Is it possible to call another function inside another one when using it in an href? See below.<br />
My second function &quot;getJulianDate()&quot; just prints the name out (ie.. &quot;getJulianDate()&quot;.<br />

<pre><code id="code-286516">&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:popItem(4,getJulianDate());&quot;&gt;Test Link&lt;/a&gt;
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Is it possible to call another function inside another one when using it in an href? See below.
My second function "getJulianDate()" just prints the name out (ie.. "getJulianDate()".

How to call a function inside another function?

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.