Question

To hide the true destination of a link I’m using the following code:

<a href="http://example.com" onclick="window.location='http://url-i-want-to-hit.com/'; return false;">Click me</a>

However, if I do right-click and then open in new window, it goes to the URL specified in the anchor href tag. I want it to go to the URL specified in the JavaScript.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

All you need is a mousedown handler to fake them out…

<a href="http://example.com"
   onmousedown="this.href2 = this.href;
                this.href = 'http://url-i-want-to-hide.com/';"
   onmouseout="if(this.href2) this.href = this.href2;">Test</a>

And here is a live demo of it working.