onclick="doSomething([object Object])" Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

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var params = {a:1,b:2}; var str = '<a href="#" onclick="doSomething('+params+')">aaaa</a>'; document.write(str);

when I click the <a> on the page,it throws "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier".I can't understand.

5 Answers

Ran into same issue. Reason for the issue: params is converted to string 'object Object' when html is rendered.

The problem can be sorted out in two ways:

Approach 1: add a click handler to the js code. Refer add click handler

Approach 2: Say I want to pass a JSON object named 'params' to the onclick function. As I need a very few attributes of the 'params' object, instead of adding a new handler as in 1st approach, I would rather just pass those specific parameters as below:

'<a href="#" onclick="doSomething(\'' + params['attribute1'] + '\'\, \'' +params['attribute2'] + '\'\)">aaa</a>'
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