preventing onclick page jumps

Question

what is the best way to stop my onclick links from causing the page to jump to the top.

Answer 1

Try this:

link

Notice that the onclick parameter returns false. Returning false cancels the default browser behavior. In the case of an anchor tag, the default browser behavior is to jump to the # anchor (aka the top of the page).

With this same trick you can also make image un-draggable and ensure that links don't steal the user's focus:

 
link that doesn't steal focus