Two events firing! (return FALSE;?)

[Colin Hale]

I have a problem (amongst others)...
I have the following code which sends 2 emails. I only want to send
one!

<A
ONCLICK="OnActi onClick('E-Mail')"
ID="EMailNowAnc hor"
NAME="EMailNowA nchor"
HREF="javascrip t:OnActionClick ('E-Mail');"
TABINDEX ="2"
CLASS="Button">
<IMG SRC="images/email.gif" ALT="Click Here" BORDER="0"
ALIGN="ABSMIDDL E">
E-Mail Now</A>

The trouble is that both the HREF and the OnClick are triggered and 2
mails are send instead of just 1.

I've tried replacing my HREF line with

HREF="javascrip t:OnActionClick ('E-Mail');return FALSE"

but this just gives an error 'return statement outside of function'.

I thought you could prevent event propogation/bubbling with return
false?

Any ideas?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Two events firing! (return FALSE;?)



Colin Hale wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a problem (amongst others)...
> I have the following code which sends 2 emails. I only want to send
> one!
>
> <A
> ONCLICK="OnActi onClick('E-Mail')"
> ID="EMailNowAnc hor"
> NAME="EMailNowA nchor"
> HREF="javascrip t:OnActionClick ('E-Mail');"
> TABINDEX ="2"
> CLASS="Button">
> <IMG SRC="images/email.gif" ALT="Click Here" BORDER="0"
> ALIGN="ABSMIDDL E">
> E-Mail Now</A>
>
> The trouble is that both the HREF and the OnClick are triggered and 2
> mails are send instead of just 1.[/color]

Well, then use
<a href="#"
onclick="OnActi onClick('E-Mail');
return false;"[color=blue]
>
> I've tried replacing my HREF line with
>
> HREF="javascrip t:OnActionClick ('E-Mail');return FALSE"
>
> but this just gives an error 'return statement outside of function'.
>
> I thought you could prevent event propogation/bubbling with return
> false?
>[/color]

You can cancel the default action of some events with
return false;
However a href is a link and not an event handler.

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Martin Honnen

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/