RE: FLASH: a shot in the dark. javascript help?

[Eric Dunham]

You need to disable the href from executing when the user clicks on it.

<a href="#" onmouseover="mouseover_function();"

onclick="your_function_here(); return false;">

You need to have the return false statement in there to keep anything from

happening after you function or whatever goes off.

You could even try something silly like <a href="some_url_here.com"

onclick="return false;"> to test out the different things that will happen

with your <a> tag. In the above example, nothing at all will happen. Yes, I

know it's a link, but the return false; statement will subsume any href

parameter that the <a> tag might have. Even though there are other ways to

do it, it's also a useful way to validate forms.

For example...

<input type=submit value=submit name=submit onclick="(validate(this.form))?

return true:return false;">

Anyway, have fun and good luck.


HTH,

Eric Dunham


<snip>

I have an image in a page that I'm using with an onclick behavior to

control a Shockwave movie.  But it sticks that dumb # sign in the href

code, which dumps the browser back to the top of the page.  In most

cases i could switch to the other onclick behavior, and it would work

fine, but there's also a rollover behavior on this particular one, so i

believe it's going to require the image to be a link.  The information i

saw about this was a little piece of javascript code that you could set

into the href parameter to prevent the page hop.

</snip>



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