avoid change location in anchor (html)

Question

I am thinking about the best solution handling click events avoiding the change of the location in the browser(#).

These are the two scenarios:

1. <a class="someclass" href="#">Click me</a>
   (This is ok, but adds a "#" in the url)  

2.  <a class="someclass" href="javascript:void(0)">Click me</a>
   (Seems to be better, the url never changes, but I don't know about compatibility in all browsers, or even when javascript is disabled)

Which one is the best solution ?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:38

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The href parameter isn't a requirement as far as I know. Just remove it and still hook up the events you need.

answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:38

Jorge Israel Peña

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:38

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In first method..Just add return false where you are handling the click event. Then it wont add # to URL

answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:38

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:40

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use Javascript:void(0);.

The void operator was pretty much to only way force the click to do nothing.

answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:40

Dipesh Parmar

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 15 '13 at 11:44

You should use href="javascript:void(0)" in adjacent with onClick because it will prevent the browser from loading a new page.if you want to use onCLick for the hyperlink and require the client to not be direct to a new page after clicking on the hyperlink, return void(0) following href='javascript:void(0)' will prevent that to happen.

avoid change location in anchor (html)

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