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Anchor tag - disable HREF - call javascript function

Experts,

I was pretty sure i knew how to do this, yet it doesnt seem to want to work in firefox, please can you look at the code below and see what im doing wrong...

It still links though to the HREF (on firefox).

Regards
Easynow

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
        <script>
                function fireAlert()
                {
			alert();
                }
  	</script>
 </HEAD>
 <BODY>
        <a href="yourlink.com" onclick="fireAlert();return false">test1</a>
        <a href="mylink.com" onclick="fireAlert();return false">test1</a>
        <a href="theirlink.com" onclick="fireAlert();return false">test1</a> 
 </BODY>
</HTML>

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Albert Van Halen

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Michel Plungjan

and it is nicer to return false from the function (points to VanHalen):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
 <head>
        <script>
                function fireAlert()
                {
                        alert('Something');
                        return false
                }
        </script>
 </head>
 <body>
        <a href="yourlink.com" onclick="return fireAlert()">test1</a>
        <a href="mylink.com" onclick="return fireAlert()">test1</a>
        <a href="theirlink.com" onclick="return fireAlert()">test1</a> 
 </body>
</html>

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Dean OBrien

ASKER

Cheers for comments