href and onClick

[Regena]

hi,
I have an image and when a "href" associated with it. on href it
should go to "link1" for example and onClick I have to call a
javascript function.
the way I do is:
<a href = "link1" ><img src="something" name="something "
onClick="javasc ript function();"></a>
the way its working is onClick its performing the javascript function
but coming back to the original page on fully loading the page. how do
I do it in the right way?

[Randy Webb]

Regena said the following on 2/6/2006 8:54 AM:

hi,
I have an image and when a "href" associated with it. on href it
should go to "link1" for example and onClick I have to call a
javascript function.
the way I do is:
<a href = "link1" ><img src="something" name="something "
onClick="javasc ript function();"></a>
the way its working is onClick its performing the javascript function
but coming back to the original page on fully loading the page. how do
I do it in the right way?

What do you call "the right way"?

<a href="link1" onclick="return someFunction(th is.href)">
<img src="..."></a>

And then have someFunction use the href passed to it as a parameter to
set the document.locati on property:

function someFunction(UR LToUse){
//do whatever you want here;
document.locati on.href = URLToUse;
return false;
}

In the future, do not post pseudo-code, post actual code. function() can
not be the name of a function.

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