Imagine that you have a list of hyperlinks that go to popular sites. The thing is, you don't want your website visitors to ever get to see them (at least coming from your site). You can prevent the default behavior of your hyperlinks using the preventDefault method.
Here is the HTML markup for a list of
<a>elements that go to popular websites. Place it inside an HTML document.<h1>A list of links you can’t go to.</h1> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a></li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/">Digg</a></li> </ul>
We will warn the user with an alert dialog box that tells them they can't access the links, even when they click on it. We'll fire this alert dialog box when a user clicks on it. Notice the
eargument in the function? That is the event object that is passed...