Hyperlinks that only fire if certain conditions are met.

Help! Is there any way to have a hyperlink <a href = .......> fire conditionally or only if certain criteria are met. In other words, if the user clicks on the hyperlink, I want to first call a function to make sure that certain conditions are true, and if not, then cancel the navigation to the hyperlink. Unfortunately, I can’t use the “navigate “ function (I think it’s a function anyway) for this purpose which would have worked nicely. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try this:

Code:

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function checkstuff()
{
  if (conditions)
    window.location = "somepage.html";
}

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Then:

Code:

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<a href="javascript:checkstuff()">text here</a>

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