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I have noticed when user clicks on a link with, say middle button, or shift/ctrl+left button, click handler attached to hyperlink is not called.
I have seen solutions to track mousedown event, but what I’d like is to track exact event of following a link.
Are there any suggestions? Thanks
mousedown/mouseupis indeed the only way you can get notified of middle button interaction, so detecting a down-then-up event without interveningmouseoutevent is more or less the best you can do. It’s not very good.I wouldn’t bother, since even if you trapped this one eventuality, there are many other interactions you can’t pick up. As well as middle-click (which might not be ‘Open in new tab’ in all browser/configurations; for example in IE6 that’ll be the user turning on scrolling mode), the user might right-click and ‘Open in new window’, or drag the link to the address bar or new tab, or various other browser-specific actions to perform a navigation.