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Jan 17.2006

In my past I’ve been calling Javascript functions more so through the <a href=”javascript function();”>link</a> method than an onclick. However I believe this is w3c uncompliant, and is causing some errors in validation.

What I’ve resorted to right now is doing something like.

<a href=”#” onclick=”function();”>link</a>

The only problem with this is then I’m puting a # in the current address bar, and well I’d rather the URL stay the same.

Any suggestions? If I leave the href=”” then it just redirects to the current page.

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@KorJan 17.2006 — <a href="#" onclick="function();[B]return false[/B]">link</a>

that will prevent the HTML action controlled by href
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@CharlesJan 17.2006 — Or, better yet:&lt;a href="version-for-the-JavaScript-free.html" onclick="function();return false"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
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@BrettNooyenauthorJan 17.2006 — Thank you very much, makes total sense! ?
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