rightclick "openlink" bypasses important javascript

[jerunyon]

Recently I noticed that if you "right click" and "open link" on my
site, you bypass the javascript code that fires "onclick". I have
several pages that fall victim to this, and I could probably refractor
the page and put checking on both javascript and cs side but before I
did that I wanted to know if there were any other ideas on how to get
around this problem.

I started out by trying to disable the right click, but I don't want
to have an "alert" pop up, I tried fired the "onclick" command on
right click events but this just had an error message pop up, then
still allowed me to still select "open link" from the context menu.

Thanks for you help

 

[Jesse Houwing]

* (e-mail address removed) wrote, On 26-6-2007 23:16:

Recently I noticed that if you "right click" and "open link" on my
site, you bypass the javascript code that fires "onclick". I have
several pages that fall victim to this, and I could probably refractor
the page and put checking on both javascript and cs side but before I
did that I wanted to know if there were any other ideas on how to get
around this problem.

I started out by trying to disable the right click, but I don't want
to have an "alert" pop up, I tried fired the "onclick" command on
right click events but this just had an error message pop up, then
still allowed me to still select "open link" from the context menu.

Thanks for you help

You cannot really force the script to fire. Remember that there might be
browsers with Javascript disabled, or people just copy/pasting the link
and opening it. If you want to be certain use a LinkButton instead of a
Hyperlink and in the LinkButton.Click server side event do a
Response.Redirect to the new url.

Alternatively you can make the link itself a javascript url like this:

<a href="javascript:if(DoSomevalidation()){window.location.replace('new
url here');}">click me</a>

But this will break the site altogether if you've got scriptless
browsers visiting your website.

Jesse