[thelist] hyperlinks on label tags?

[Sarah Adams]

> I have a page that displays a list of categories with a checkbox + label 
> for each category and an onChange action on each checkbox.
> 
> The labels of categories that contain sub-categories are hyperlinked.  
> When a user clicks the hyperlink to drill into the category, the 
> checkbox is also getting checked/un-checked causing undesirable results.
> 
> Is there a way to use javascript to prevent the box from being 
> checked/unchecked when the label is/contains a hyperlink?
> 
> Here is a sample of the current HTML ...
> 
> <snip>

Hi, Ryan :)

I think this would be fairly easy to do with some DOM scripting, but I'm
wondering - what happens if the user actually wants to check the box for
the "parent" category?

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