Re: Page refresh on click compulsory?

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From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject	Re: Page refresh on click compulsory?
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bit-naughty@hotmail.com writes:

> If I click on something, does it ALWAYS mean that the page will blank,
> and the next page will be got? How is this prevented exactly? If I
> just do a "addEventListener" with a "click" argument, will it be
> prevented?

If you install the event handler using addEventListener, you have to
cancel the event's default behaviour by calling

  event.preventDefault()

in the handler function.  There's also the possibility that you don't
want the event to propagate further up (or down) which you would do with
event.stopPropagation().

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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  Re: Page refresh on click compulsory? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-22 16:28 +0100

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