How do I attach a "listener" to a hyperlink such that clicking the hyperlink will fire off a function before the browser actually requests the document in the href?

If I put something in onClick, doesn't that override the click and prevent the browser from requesting the linked URL?  Or will it do both?

<script>
function myFunction(){
//do stuff

document.window.location = "www.blah.com";
}
</script>



<a href="javascript:myFunctions()">My Link</a>

Why not add document.location.href = "whereveryouwanttogo" to the end of the call to the listener?  Doesn't answer your question exactly, but it avoids the need to even ask it. :)

Thanks.  I think I see how to modify that for my framed situation.

And I assume that if a user is blocking ALL javascript, the link will just work off the href attribute.

Alternatively, this would take you... like, five seconds to try.

if I do href="mylocation" onClick="myfunction" anyway.

Easier to ask since you're all so knowlegable.  I'm going for efficiency here, Colm.

That'll work.

Right, why bother wasting 5 seconds of your own time when you can waste ours instead?

Yeah, like any of us was doing anything productive. :)

Colm just likes so find fault with me because he's secretly so jealous of me that it makes him cry at night.

Uuuuh... jealous of what?

Dude, what's NOT to be jealous of when it comes to me?  I'm so fucking awesome it makes ME cry.

Right. Carry on muppy.

>Dude, what's NOT to be jealous of when it comes to me?

Every other post on here is a complaint about your life. Either your job sucks, you're ill because of your drugs or you're poor.

lol
Thats a pretty acurate list.

" Either your job sucks, you're ill because of your drugs or you're poor."

heh. and every second post you make is attacking muppet.

so...which of you has the sadder life?

Yeah, and like muppet is any different.

true.  every second post muppet makes is _also_ about muppet.

<g> but I put it to you that muppet has rather more of an investment in muppets life than Colm has.

...at least, I would have thought so...

Lets stop derailing the thread, muppet is boring

His posts are boring.

Muppet himself is a fun subject :)

Just like a bot is a fun subject...

>but I put it to you that muppet has rather more of an
>investment in muppets life than Colm has.

Gee, I hate to agree with you here, but I really DON'T care about muppet's life. I care even less about how much you care about me not giving a shit about muppet, however, and I'm frankly baffled as to why you give a shit about me.

Put simply... why are you still talking?

He's probably still talking for the same reason you just made that post, Colm.

Because I can.

The proper way to do it would be (with prototype)

<a id="hi" href='http://crazyontap.com' > Link 1 </A>

<script >

Event.observe( $('hi'), "click", function1, true);


function1 = function(e){
  Event.stop(e); // Stops the click event
  //Do Stuff

  //If you want still to trigger the click funcion
  Event.element(e).click();

}

</script>

But yeah, the others also work :)

>He's probably still talking for the same reason you just
>made that post, Colm.

Which was?

"I really DON'T care about muppet's life."

interesting.  you claim that, but yet I still read a _lot_ of posts by you about muppet, his life and his posting techniques.

seems like a lot of work for someone who doesn't care about the topic.


"Put simply... why are you still talking?"

becaues I get a real kick out of baiting people less intelligent than myself.

You can really tell who are young and who aren't.

>interesting.

Ah, see that's where you went wrong. You're actually being very, very dull.

Interesting enough to get Ms WsV

"who are young and who aren't"

You really aren't ever going to get the hang of this English language thing, are you Rick? :-)

You have been living in Canada for a good many years now, and you must therefore have to speak English every day. Why do you have so much trouble learning it?

Cause no one is correcting your mistakes.

And I don't really want to learn!

> And I don't really want to learn!

As the saying goes, once in Rome... If you don't want to learn it, why did you move there?

I mean I don't want to perfect it.

There are more important stuff to learn and do.

Such as what?

Oh, perhaps I am just lazy.

It's too hard to move back.

> It's too hard to move back.

How good is your cantonese, btw?

Very good.

On the other hand, writing proper Chinese is ever harder, and I have not do it for far too long to catch up.

Have not done...

Basically, you're an international analphabet. If the canadian government wanted to deport you, they'd be fucked.