Hmm. I notice this forum does not seem to appear all that popular - I hope someone actually responds:

Anyway, I followed the example pretty well until the explanation on page 175. Two things that threw me:

1. the explanation refers to a link (but the example uses a straight forward <img> tag and there are no <a> tags in the example.

2. there is no explanation for the "return" as in ".. onclick="return changeImg(1)">

I don't have the book so I don't know what page 175 is, but the return statement is often used that if there is a value returned from the method, the click action will continue; if false is returned, it is not processed. Sometimes return false is added so that the actual action doesn't occur (such as with .NET buttons to prevent them from posting back to the server).

Brian

Thank you so much for responding!

I am not quite sure I understand your response.

The example in the book is as follows:
<img name="img1" src="x.gif" onclick="return changeImg()">

What confuses me is that "return" comes before the function. In this case, the last line of changeImg()'s procedure is "return false."

The changeImg() function itself merely changes the src property of the image to swap images.

Hi,Tim:
I'm John and a beginner too. I just read it on the same page as you questioned. you can turn one page bake and find a title "Event Handlers as Attributes" where you could get a anwser.( key sentence is " the value returned by onclick = "return linkSomePage_onclick()" is used by JavaScript to decide whether the normal actin of the link, that is,going to a new page , should occur." Good luck.