How to consume button click inside tag to prevent link being followed?

Question

I\'ve added a button inside a link tag, with a little cross image, that I will eventually use to actually remove that element without it following the link also:

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Answer 1

First change your function to:

function detectClick(message){
    window.alert("Detected: " + message);
    return false; // add this line
}

then change the onclick handler to:

onclick="return detectClick('Google')" // note the "return"

Please do note that AFAIK the HTML standard does not allow to have a button inside an anchor.