HTML anchor link - href and onclick both?

Question

I want to author an anchor tag that executes some JavaScript and then proceeds to go wherever the href was taking it. Invoking a function that executes my JavaS

Answer 1

When doing a clean HTML Structure, you can use this.

//Jquery Code
$('a#link_1').click(function(e){
  e . preventDefault () ;
  var a = e . target ;
  window . open ( '_top' , a . getAttribute ('href') ) ;
});

//Normal Code
element = document . getElementById ( 'link_1' ) ;
element . onClick = function (e) {
  e . preventDefault () ;
  
  window . open ( '_top' , element . getAttribute ('href') ) ;
} ;

Do it!