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Asked: 2026-06-11T06:22:36+00:00

When the user clicks a link, I want to execute some code in a

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When the user clicks a link, I want to execute some code in a function inside the controller. But I want to prevent that the URL changes.

I tried the following possibilities

  1. Removed the href-attribute. Didn’t work, still changes the url to ‘/’

  2. Tried ng-click='deleteUser(user.id, $event)' and $event.preventDefault() in my deleteUser()-function. Didn’t work.

  3. What did work is a hack I’ve found on GitHub about an unintended reload.

This is how I do it now:

<a ng-click="deleteUser(user.id)" href="javascript:">Delete user</a>

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What is the’clean’ method to prevent a link from changing the URL?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The real problem is in the a directive

    That’s right, every <a></a> element is actually an AngularJS directive.

    It seems to fix some issues with IE if you look the comments in the code.

    But everything for me is working great when I just removed the directive from the AngularJS core code.

    I was having the same problem as you did and tried all of the other solutions. The difference is that I had the problem only in IE.

    If you don’t want to play with building the AngularJS script from source, just search for htmlAnchorDirective in the angular.js file and remove/comment it out.

    I believe there is a bigger problem here which should be addressed in the AngularJS core, but I haven’t found it yet.

    UPDATE: This solution is most probably outdated now! You should try using the latest AngularJS version.

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