runApp() link works in IE, not in Chrome or Firefox

[scaiferw]

I have a lab management webapp that lists servers on my network. With a click in IE I can open a terminal services session to that server.

The code - shown below - works in IE, but not in chrome or firefox. Can anyone suggest how I can make this work in Chrome (Firefox would be nice too, but Chrome is more important.)

I fooled around with an idea to do it with jquery, but couldn't make it work. I do have jquery loaded, though.

<span style="color:blue;cursor:hand;" onClick="runApp('mstsc /v 10.1.2.3'); return false;" title="Click to open Terminal Services session">HOSTNAME</span>

Would appreciate any advice. This has crippled an otherwise very useful tool.

[LastMitch]

@scaiferw

The code - shown below - works in IE, but not in chrome or firefox. Can anyone suggest how I can make this work in Chrome (Firefox would be nice too, but Chrome is more important.)

Can you post your code regarding with runApp() function.

[scaiferw]

The runApp() code is in my original post above.

The alternative I've been looking at is a jquery setup where the HTML code is:

<span class="tsconnect" device_ip="10.1.2.3" style="color:blue;cursor:hand;" title="Click to open a Terminal Services session">[LBPDMPKW01]</span>

and the javascript code is;

$(document).ready(function() {
  $(".tsconnect").click(function () {
    alert("hello");
    //  runApp($(this).data("device_ip"));
    //  alert($(this).data("device_ip"));
    //  runApp("ping -t 127.0.0.1");
    //  runApp("mstsc /v 10.1.2.3"); return false;
    //  runApp("c:\temp\temp.cmd"); return false;
  });
}); 

I can't get any of the commented runapp() or alert() lines to run, though I know the function is firing because the uncommented alert("hello"); line works whenever I click on the spanned text.

[LastMitch]

I can't get any of the commented runapp() or alert() lines to run, though I know the function is firing because the uncommented alert("hello"); line works whenever I click on the spanned text

Instead of click()

$(".tsconnect").click(function () 

Try using on() function:

$(document).ready(function() {
$("tsconnect").on("click",function(){
alert("hello");
runApp($(this).data("device_ip"));
alert($(this).data("device_ip"));
runApp("ping -t 127.0.0.1");
runApp("mstsc /v 10.1.2.3"); return false;
runApp("c:\temp\temp.cmd"); return false;
});
}); 

I'm not sure it's gonna work because this doesn't look right inside of runApp() & alert():

$(this).data("device_ip")
ping -t 127.0.0.1
mstsc /v 10.1.2.3
c:\temp\temp.cmd

Try to put 3 alerts and see how it goes. Put like one word in each alert.
If all 3 alerts appear then there's something wrong with

$(this).data("device_ip")
ping -t 127.0.0.1
mstsc /v 10.1.2.3
c:\temp\temp.cmd

So there's nothing wrong with the function runApp() & alert()

You need to find another way to make it readable so that runApp() & alert() function can read it and work.