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Sep 30.2009

Hi, I want to be able to create a button on my site that the mouse cursor recognises as a link, but that doesn’t load a page or reload the current page when clicked.

I just want it to run a bit of javascript.

Can anyone suggest anything. I could use a styled button, but they have cross-browser issues.

Thanks in advance.

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@coldscooterauthorSep 30.2009 — The thumbs-up/thumbs-down links on youtube comments are a good example.
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@nathandelaneOct 01.2009 — One thing you could do is in the href attribute of a regular link (also known as an anchor tag), write javascript code, like:
<i>
</i>&lt;a href="javascript:return false;"&gt;Link text&lt;/a&gt;

Or you could use CSS to style a different kind of HTML element to appear like a link when the mouse cursor hovers over it, like:
<i>
</i>&lt;img src="/images/some-image-file-name.png" style="cursor: pointer;"/&gt;
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@coldscooterauthorOct 01.2009 — That is pefect. Thanks for the reply.
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