Question

I’d like to trigger an event when a link is clicked both by clicking on it normally or by opening it in a new tab (e.g., middle click, ctrl + click, etc)

I’ve tried the following so far:

$('a').click(myfunc) Doesn’t capture middle clicks.

$('a').mousedown(myfunc) works, but it seems to be preventing the link from being followed even though my function doesn’t call event.preventDefault.

Any ideas how to do this then?

Answer 1

Try returning true from your handler function. Returning nothing can be interpreted by the browser as a void return and thus prevent the default action from being carried out.