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Asked: 2026-06-06T00:43:35+00:00

Can anyone tell me why the code below doesn’t seem to prevent the link

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Can anyone tell me why the code below doesn’t seem to prevent the link from doing its thing? I know I can just use onclick="return false", but it should work with preventDefault, right? I tried onclick="function(e){this.preventDefault()}" and onclick="this.preventDefault()", but no love.

<!doctype html>  
<html lang="en">  
    <head>  
        <meta charset="utf-8">  
        <title>Test</title>  
    </head>  
    <body> 
        <a href="http://www.google.com" onclick="function(e){e.preventDefault()}">Google Search</a>
    </body>  
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Remove function(e){. When you put function(e){} there, that means creating a function but not running it.

    Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/RnngR/

    Do it like this:

    <a href="http://www.google.com" onclick="event.preventDefault();">Google Search</a>
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