I'd like to trigger an event when a link is clicked both by clicking on it normally or by opening it in a new tab (e.g., middle click, ctrl + click, etc)

I've tried the following so far:

$('a').click(myfunc) Doesn't capture middle clicks.

$('a').mousedown(myfunc) works, but it seems to be preventing the link from being followed even though my function doesn't call event.preventDefault.

Any ideas how to do this then?

I'd like to trigger an event when a link is clicked both by clicking on it normally or by opening it in a new tab (e.g., middle click, ctrl + click, etc)

I've tried the following so far:

$('a').click(myfunc) Doesn't capture middle clicks.

$('a').mousedown(myfunc) works, but it seems to be preventing the link from being followed even though my function doesn't call event.preventDefault.

Any ideas how to do this then?

• javascript
• jquery
• firefox
• events

1 Answer 1

Try returning true from your handler function. Returning nothing can be interpreted by the browser as a void return and thus prevent the default action from being carried out.