1<html>
2<head>
3 <script type="text/javascript">
4
5 // Wait for the page to load first
6 window.onload = function() {
7
8 //Get a reference to the link on the page
9 // with an id of "mylink"
10 var a = document.getElementById("mylink");
11
12 //Set code to run when the link is clicked
13 // by assigning a function to "onclick"
14 a.onclick = function() {
15
16 // Your code here...
17
18 //If you don't want the link to actually
19 // redirect the browser to another page,
20 // "google.com" in our example here, then
21 // return false at the end of this block.
22 // Note that this also prevents event bubbling,
23 // which is probably what we want here, but won't
24 // always be the case.
25 return false;
26 }
27 }
28 </script>
29</head>
30<body>
31 <a id="mylink" href="http://www.google.com">linky</a>
32</body>
33</html>