Question

Suppose we have the ff. in a.html:

<script>
  function onClick() {
    // Do some important stuff and then...
    location = "b.html";
  }
</script>
<a href="#" onclick="onClick();">Link</a>

Double-clicking on Link will trigger the event-handler onClick. However, the second click in the double-click seems to be interpreted as another click and causes the page to jump to the named anchor. In effect, the location isn’t changed.

My questions are:

1. Is this a browser bug or feature?

2. Is there a way to work-around this behavior?

Answer 1

You could try

href="javascript:void(0);"

instead