Issue with onClick() and middle button on mouse

Question

\" onClick=\"countLinks(\'\',\'\')\">[Link ]

The pr

Answer 1

The behavior of this is quite variable by browser. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255#c106 . According to that, of the ones you asked about:

• "IE doesn't fire a click event if the target is a link, but does fire it if another element is clicked even if it's a descendant of a link."

• "Gecko always fires a click event on the document that bubbles and has as target the element being clicked."

For Firefox, thus you can do:

$( document ).click(
  function ( evt ) {
    // ... evt.which === 2 means middle click
  }
);

which is kind of a trick (normally you would listen to events on the link itself), but it works.