Question

I am using jslint to check my javascript.

It’s giving me repeatedly the following error:

Problem at line 236 character 18: Script URL.
a.href = "javascript:DoSomething(" + messageID + ");"

Probably, jslint is right. What would be the correct way to set the .href?

Answer 1

Give it an onclick event handler instead, like this:

a.onclick = function() { DoSomething(messageID); };

Leave the href as # and either stop propgation or return false to stop the scroll, for example:

a.onclick = function() { DoSomething(messageID); return false; };