Example of Canceling the Default Behavior of a Link Using a Function

This page has a link to the NYTimes website. Click the link.

Click to go to the NYTimes

As you see, clicking the link does not take you to the NYTimes website. This is because the <link> tag has an "onclick" attribute with some Javascript to run when a user clicks the link. 

		<a href="http://nytimes.com" onclick="return false;" >Click to go to the NYTimes</a>
That "return false;" in the Javascript tells the browser not to follow through with the link when a user clicks it.