Um, Brandon, so what you're saying is that if you comment out the "return false;" in the first example below (making it the same as cmbtrx's code), it will fail to display the alert? Let's think about this... alert() is a blocking call. It opens the alert box immediately, and the function does not return until you close the box. Since the "return false;" is executed *after* the alert(), it seems unlikely that its presence or absence would affect something that's already happened. :-) The "return false;" does prevent the default action of following the link, as you mentioned. -Mike
_____ From: Brandon Aaron The click event on an A tag has a default action associated with it by the browser ... more specifically a redirect to the links href. You have to stop this default action in order to see your alert. There are two ways to do this. The first way: A click handler can return false to prevent the default (and stop propagation). To do this, your event handler would look like this: $("a").click(function(){ alert("Thanks for visiting!"); return false; }); The second way: The event handler gets passed the event object as its first argument and the event object has a method to prevent the default behavior as well. You could also do the above like this: $("a").click(function(event){ alert("Thanks for visiting!"); event.preventDefault(); }); Hope that helps! -- Brandon Aaron