Ah, but these are links I have no control over from other pages. The trick is that they are just normal pages that are pulled in to the tab.
Joshua Cyr Savvy Software 866.870.6358 www.besavvy.com -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: javascript to prevent a normal link from working return false in your <a href> tag. <a href="#" onclick="doFunction(args); return false;">foo</a> On 12/19/06, Joshua Cyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am playing with YUI and spry and have a fun task of having content > from other pages load into a tab system in spry. All is working well so far. > Next I have event listener code to check for the click of any link in > that tab content area (which is a separate file). Those links are > just normal links with no onclick or anything. If you click on it > load that linked pages data into the tab. That also works. > > What I am stuck on now is how to get the page to then stop going to > the new page. In other words if the link goes to 'aboutus.cfm' I can > get the content of aboutus.cfm to load into the tab content area, but > the page then reloads fully to go to the aboutus.cfm page. > > Basically clicking on a link will trigger the function below which > needs to stop the default behavior of opening a new page. > > I use return false; in my function, but that only cancel's things in > IE7 and not firefox. I also tried return(false); with same result. > > Relevant JS is: > > function clickHandler(e) { > var elTarget = YAHOO.util.Event.getTarget(e); // sets the var with > the href of the new page > Spry.Utils.updateContent('apDiv1',elTarget); // updates my div with > new content > return(false); // try to stop browser from opening new page } > YAHOO.example.init = function() { > YAHOO.util.Event.on(YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsByClassName('joshua', > 'div')[0], "click", clickHandler); > } > > > Joshua Cyr > Savvy Software > 866.870.6358 > <http://www.besavvy.com/> www.besavvy.com > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
