<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Wait for the page to load first
window.onload = function() {
//Get a reference to the link on the page
// with an id of "mylink"
var a = document.getElementById("mylink");
//Set code to run when the link is clicked
// by assigning a function to "onclick"
a.onclick = function() {
// Your code here...
//If you don't want the link to actually
// redirect the browser to another page,
// "google.com" in our example here, then
// return false at the end of this block.
// Note that this also prevents event bubbling,
// which is probably what we want here, but won't
// always be the case.
return false;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a id="mylink" href="
http://www.google.com">linky</a>
</body>
</html>