JavaScript in links Mar08 '06
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# (2 of 2): Josh » joahua.com/blog
1 hour, 48 minutes after the fact. (Wed 08 Mar 2006, 4:31 PM CST)
Uhh, it ate my code.
a href="version for people without javascript or search engines" onclick="doStuff(); return false;"
obviously wrapped in lt/gt signs, which I’m not trying again for obvious reasons.
return false; cancels the link’s default action. You can also stick that in the doStuff() function, or whatever. And yeah, onclick doesn’t have to be inline... if you’re feeling really clever you can attach it with DOM methods, etc., but so often that’s just too hard (especially where the code is server-generated anyway, and "markup purity" is a relative term because THAT markup only exists for the duration of page runtime!)
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# (1 of 2): Josh » joahua.com/blog
1 hour, 45 minutes after the fact. (Wed 08 Mar 2006, 4:29 PM CST)