Javascript and Anchor Tags, Best Practice?

Question

Quick Question.

Should we put Javascript in the HREF or use onClick (event)?

Are there any pros/cons to using either one. Personally I think it\'s easier/cle

Answer 1

1) Rather use onclick. Be sure to have a rational fallback URL in href when JS is not allowed.

2) Rather than onclick="...", you should use event handler. Find elements using jQuery or XPath, and then for each, call element.addEventListener().

element.addEventListener("click", function() { alert("bar"); }, false);

Or the old way...

element.onclick = function() { alert("foo"); };