About the only thing I can offer is that with onmouseover, onclick should be redundant, since one would have to mouseover to click. Still, the onclick event is more reliable than onmouseover, which can fail at times.

I presume you have many similar links. In this case, assign the events using a for loop and the document.links array.

Kaled.

with onmouseover, onclick should be redundant

Hmm...haven't testing this, but it sound like that assumes the visitor used a mouse to activate the link.

Onmouseover and onclick are both mouse events; onfocus would cover the case where a field was tabbed to and the enter key used simulate onclick.

You might try using unobtrusive JavaScript to attach the events instead, keeping your markup nice and clean.

In the head of your document:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
function attachBehaviors() { 
 var az = document.getElementById('zlink'); 
 if(!az ) return; 
 az.onmouseover = az.onfocus = az.onclick = az.onkeypress = function(){return z('a','b');}; 
} 
window.onload = attachBehaviors; 
</script> 

And change your HTML to:

<a href="/.../" id="zlink">...</a> 

Rambo Tribble:

About the only thing I can offer is that with onmouseover, onclick should be redundant, since one would have to mouseover to click.

timster:

...it sound like that assumes the visitor used a mouse to activate the link.

Rambo Tribble:

Onmouseover and onclick are both mouse events; onfocus would cover the case where a field was tabbed to and the enter key used simulate onclick.

I think timster is correct. The onclick event (on anchors/buttons) is not just a mouse event - it is also fired when a user tabs to a link and activates it with the keyboard. The onfocus event will fire as soon as the link is tabbed to using the keyboard - so in this respect is on a par with the onmouseover event for those using the mouse.

I would have said the onkeypress event on the anchor was superfluous in the original example, since the onclick event would also fire.

Onclick is a mouse event that is simulated by a keyboard event for accessibility, as noted.