javascript - Access event to call preventdefault from custom function originating from onclick attribute of tag

Question

I have links like this:

<a href="#" onclick="myfunc({a:1, b:'hi'})" />click</a>
<a href="#" onclick="myfunc({a:3, b:'jo'})" />click</a>

And I would like to do a preventDefault() inside myfunc(), because a # will be added in the address bar when clicking on the link (without doing return false; or href='javascript:void(0);')

Is this possible? Can I get the event inside myfunc()

Answer 1

I believe you can pass in event into the function inline which will be the event object for the raised event in W3C compliant browsers (i.e. older versions of IE will still require detection inside of your event handler function to look at window.event).

A quick example.

function sayHi(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   alert("hi");
}

<a href="http://google.co.uk" onclick="sayHi(event);">Click to say Hi</a>