Make the href anything you want ("#" will work), but in the onclick handler,
do this:onclick="openWidgetWindow();return false" the return false statement keeps the browser from following the link. for a ridiculously complete discussion of the topic, including handling non-javascript enabled browsers, see http://www.kottke.org/notes/0112.html#011227 and http://milov.nl/?comments=474 -----Original Message----- From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Non-Struts Related JS Question Does anyone know how to call a javascript function from an html link w/o causing the parent page to reload, but still having the cursor change to a pointing finger when it goes over the link? I'm trying to implement the following basic situation....user clicks on a link, a child window pops up w/ a listing of widgets, user clicks on a widget, and a value is passed back to the parent page. I've been able to get everything working (popup window, widget listing, return value, etc) w/ an anchor tag like this... <a onclick="openWidgetWindow()">Click here to see a listing of Widgets</a> However, one thing w/ this is that the mouse cursor doesn't change to a pointing finger when it goes over the link because I don't have the href attribute set. I can manipulate the stylesheet settings so that it "looks" like a regular link (underline, same color as all links), but the cursor never changes to a pointing finger to indicate to the user that it's just a plain old link to click on. When I try putting in the href attribute, the page tries to reload (don't want that happening). I've tried a variety of dummy values for the href (pound sign '#', blank, etc), but every value I've tried seems to make the page reload.
