JavaScript function in href vs. onclick

Question

I want to run a simple JavaScript function on a click without any redirection.

Is there any difference or benefit between putting the JavaScript call in the hr

Answer 1

One more thing that I noticed when using "href" with javascript:

The script in "href" attribute won't be executed if the time difference between 2 clicks was quite short.

For example, try to run following example and double click (fast!) on each link. The first link will be executed only once. The second link will be executed twice.

href
onclick

Reproduced in Chrome (double click) and IE11 (with triple click). In Chrome if you click fast enough you can make 10 clicks and have only 1 function execution.

Firefox works ok.