Using jQuery to Trigger a Link only if a Condition is met

April 28, 2010

Using jQuery to Trigger a Link only if a Condition is met

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Posted by Suprotim Agarwal
Labels: ASP.NET, jQuery

I was recently asked a question. How to prevent a link from triggering if a condition is not met. Here’s a very simple code to do so. If the values of two textboxes do not match, the link does not get clicked. If the values match, the user is navigated to the URL the link points to.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Prevent a Link from Navigating</title>
    <script type="text/javascript"
    src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js">
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
        $('#anc').click(function(e) {
            if($("#Text1").val() != $("#Text2").val())
                e.preventDefault();
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" action="">
    <input id="Text1" type="text" /><br />
    <input id="Text2" type="text" /><br />
    <a id="anc" href="http://www.dotnetcurry.com">Click me</a>
 </form>
</body>
</html>

Note: You should add an extra check to see if the boxes are not empty.

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Suprotim Agarwal, ASP.NET Architecture MVP works as an Architect Consultant and provides consultancy on how to design and develop Web applications.

Suprotim is also the founder and primary contributor to DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He has also written an EBook 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls.

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