Adding click event via addEventListener to confirm navigation from a hyperlink

Question

I am writing some JavaScript that what I essentially want to do is confirm when a user clicks a link that they do actually want to click it.

My code currently looks

Answer 1

You have to prevent the execution of the default event handler.

See How to use Javascript's addEventListener() to override an HTML Form's default submit() behavior

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We'll, I've seen you've answered yourself while I was editing the answer