how to fire the "ondblclick" event of a link

Question

I want to do this: when you click a link on a page, it will open the link normally, but when you double click the link, it will alert the link's 'href' attribute.

However, when I try to double click a link, it will always open the link. Any idea?

Answer 1

a double click is two clicks, thus it fires the click event

Answer 2

Because the onclick event gets fired before the ondbclick event. That is the reson why ondblclick does not get executed -> the link gets loaded first.

Answer 3

maybe it's just a typo: the event you're looking for is named ondblclick, not ondbclick.

Answer 4

To avoid the link being opened, you may want to work with right-clicks instead.