Thank you, that's great you both showed me that. I'm not used to setting a method with a function like that, so that opened up my eyes. You gotta start somewhere. Thanks again, Chris VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I've slightly altered your code to make it more robust, leak-free and > unobtrusive: > > <script type="text/javascript"> > window.onload=function(evt) { > var e = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); > for( var i=0; i < e.length; i++ ) { > e[i].onclick = anchor_click; /* > easiest way to prevent memory leak issues > in MSIE is not to use a closure > for more info: > see the references at the end*/ > } > }; > > function anchor_click(evt){ > alert("you clicked me!"); > //return true;/*no need*/ > } > </script> > <body> > <a id="a" href="page2.php" >Click here and you'll go crazy/a><br /> > <a id="b" href="link1.html" >Click here and you won't</a> > </body> > > References: > > [1] Help! my browser leaks memory > http://www.volkanozcelik.com/volkanozcelik/blog/2005/10/help-my-browser-leaks-memory.html > [2] Memory leakage in IE revisited > http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/leakpatterns.asp > [3] > A simple leak-free XMLHttpRequest wrapper (partially related) > http://www.volkanozcelik.com/cre8/blog/2006/02/simple-leak-free-defensive.html > note: > I've not tested the code but it should work as expected. > > HTH, > -- > Volkan Ozcelik > +>Yep! I'm blogging! : http://www.volkanozcelik.com/volkanozcelik/blog/ > +> My projects/studies/trials/errors : http://www.sarmal.com/ >