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Re: Page refresh on click compulsory?

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bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote on 22 Jul 2016 in comp.lang.javascript:

> If I click on something, does it ALWAYS mean that the page will blank,
> and the next page will be got?

No.

> How is this prevented exactly? If I just

It is not true. It does it ALWAYS mean that.

> do a "addEventListener" with a "click" argument, will it be prevented?

Why not start with easier to understand:

onclick = '....';

[see below]

> (say I just want some type of "box" to popup when a particular link is
> clicked, as I've seen on many sites....)

I don't understand your "just", 
because it does it ALWAYS mean that.

> I'm still new to this stuff, so learning.... :) 

Do you think that learning is 'just' for beginners?

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Answer, [although it is all over the web]:

Have your code return *false*:

<myElement onclick = 'myFunction1();myF2();return false;'> ...

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Evertjan.
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Page refresh on click compulsory? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-22 06:51 -0700
  Re: Page refresh on click compulsory? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-22 16:42 +0200
  Re: Page refresh on click compulsory? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-22 16:28 +0100

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