Using JQuery to add anchor + href to dynamically generated html - cannot right click in Firefox

Question

I am writing a facebook-like chat appliation, and (as in facebook) at the top of each chatbox I have added a link that opens the associated user profile when clicked on. The html for the chatboxes is dynamically generated using javascript/jquery.

The problem is that in Firefox this link is not "right clickable". While in Chrome this link is right-clickable.

So, I have two questions 1) why is this href not right-clickable in Firefox. 2) Is there a better way that I should be adding dynamically generated href's to my code using javascript/jquery.

Currently, I am using (in pseudo code):

$('#chatbox_identifier').wrap("<a href=link_to_user_profile></a>") // set once
$('#chatbox_identifier').text("UserName/Status text")  // can be set many times

Note: the Username/Status text can change depending on if the user is Idle/Away/Online, and therefore will be reset every time a users online status changes. This is part of the reason why I have wrapped it in the anchor (since the anchor never changes - I am only updating what really needs to be modified).

"Bonus question": is there any reason why the following should not show up as a "clickable" hyperlink when dynamically generated (in pseudo-code):

$('#chatbox_identifier').html("<a href=link_to_user_profile>UserName/Status</a>")

This is the first approach that I wanted to take, but I could not get it to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Answer 1

It turns out that the chatbox code (for which I am not the original author) had the following declaration:

uiChatboxTitlebar.find('*').add(uiChatboxTitlebar).disableSelection()

This resulted in preventing right-clicks in Firefox.

regards Alex

Answer 2

Could you post the actual HTML that is being generated by it? Maybe that will help. Links are sometimes not clickable when you haven't set an HREF value.

Answer 3

Your pseudo-code seems to be ok. Maybe you should post some real code, it may help understand what is going on.