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I have a web page with dynamically generated hyperlinks in a grid view. For every hyperlink should be a corresponding button, which does nothing else than calling the link. How can I reference the href property from my clientclick button event and call it?

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Why bother? I would just style your links, using CSS text-decoration:none; and making sure the :hover and :visited pseudo-class does what you want. This would also be the progressive enhancement solution. –  PHPglue Nov 5 '13 at 22:56

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Depending on how you are retrieving the hyperlink, you could just do something like the following:

Html:

<a id="dyn_link_00" href="https://duckduckgo.com/" target="_blank">Duck, duck, GO!!!!</a>

Javascript:

// we assume that the current index is 00 and link is defined in scope.
link = document.getElementById('dyn_link_' + currentIndex);
console.log(link.href.toString()); // yields https://duckduckgo.com/ 
                                   // (toString() might not be necessary)
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