Question

I dont know if the title make sense but code worth a thousound word !

here is the :

a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://campaignmonitor.com/blog&text=I love the Campaign Monitor blog!&via=campaignmonitor&related=yarrcat" id="tweeter">Tweet it</a>

and i have a jquery button that capture the event click :

$('#tweeter').click(function(){
     do some var loading
    and do some validation... and then.. execute the href !
});

in fact i like the href to be done inside the jquery function… and then executed… the could be a href=”#”

Question, how do i said to the jquery function…. execute the href !

Answer 1

$('#tweeter').click(function(e){
     do some var loading
    and do some validation... 
    if validation fails then e.preventDefault() 
    else don't do anything as the browser will continue and redirect to the link 
});