Edge browser: Prevent Ctrl + leftclick

Question

Is there a way to prevent the default behaviour of the Microsoft Edge browser, when I use Ctrl + Left click on a link?

Edge is opening the link in a new tab, but I want to have my own event for Ctrl + Left click.

Answer 1

You can assign a click event handler to your links.
Then, in a handler, you can do e.preventDefault() in order to prevent default browser action. e.ctrlKey will tell you if Ctrl button is clicked.

$("a").click(function(e) {
  if (e.ctrlKey === true)
  {
    e.preventDefault();
    // your custom actions
  }
});

Here is the working JSFiddle demo.

Since you have defined a jquery tag, I have used this. Of course, it can be easily done in vanilla JS.