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OnClick Event needs to fire first

To whom it may concern:

I have the following code:

function Charts_onclick() {

window.location.href = "http://www.somelink";
return true;

}

<td><a href="redirect.ashx?url=http://www.AnotherLink?utm_source=landingpage_utm_medium=cpc_utm_campaign=Anatomical+Skeletal+System+LP1+Link6" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Models','','images/ACC_TopNav_Models_Ovr.gif',1)"><img src="images/ACC_TopNav_Models.gif" alt="Models" name="Models" width="113" height="33" border="0" id="Models" onclick="return Models_onclick('http://www.somelink')" /></a></td>

I don't want this to go to the href. I need the onclick event to move the user to www.somelink.

I only want to record the Anotherlink in my redirect.ashx? How do I make the onclick event work and not have the redirect happen. This redirect has a bunch of special characters otherwise the a normal redirect would happen, but I have to record it to a database.

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Michel Plungjan

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Jagadishwor Dulal

Not Clear what are doing there is function and you are using url also ?

Julian Hansen

You posted a function called Charts_onclick and a link that calls Models_click - but nothing that calls Charts_onclick?

You can do this

<a href="...." onclick="Somefunction(); return false;" >

function SomeFunction() {
// your code
// no need to return anything here
}

or as you have it in which case you must return false from the function as mplungjan suggested above.