Question

I want to change the standard browser behavior in a web app where a mousedown click would cause the click action to happen before the button is released. I want this for all the hyperlinks in an app.
Is there a simple way to accomplish this in jQuery?
I am not looking for a solution to change every link individually. It should be a global event handler which works in current and future links.

Example:
in Yahoo Mail, as soon as you click on a tab, that tab gets focus. It happens before the button is released.

There’s a requirement to mimic this behavior for hyper links

Answer 1

If I’m understanding you correctly and you want to override the default link behavior, something like this should work:

$(function(){
    $("a").bind({ 
        click: function(e){
            e.preventDefault();
        },
        mouseenter: function(){
            window.location.href = $(this).attr("href");
        } 
    });
});

Here’s a jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/H2L4D/1/