Example of Canceling the Default Behavior of a Link

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

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 doSomething();" >Click to go to the NYTimes</a>

That code tells the browser to call the function "doSomething" when a user clicks the link. The function says "return false;", which tells the browser not to follow through with the link when a user clicks it.