How do I style a span to look like a link without using javascript?

Question

For my website I will need to use instead of , because I am using mostly ajax and thus instead of links I have onclick ajax event

Answer 1

You can use an onClick event but if I remember correctly, you must return false in order to prevent your page from jumping around; something like:

or: provided that myfunction will return false.

You can also directly call a javascript from href but you must cast the result to void in order to block to the browser to try to follow the result as a valid link:

Even if you still want to use the onClick property; it would still be a good idea to replace the href="#" with href="javascript:void(0)" ...>.

Other people have mentionned using the event.preventDefault() and stopPropagation(). I don't remember ever using one of these but I must admit that it has been many years since the last time that I have coding some javascript in a HTML link; so you should definitely investigate the use of these two functions.

EDIT: maybe that using a href="javascript:void(0)" could be a bad idea sometimes; see http://drupal.org/node/1193068 .