Override default behaviour for link ('a') objects in Javascript

Question

If you don't want to iterate over all your anchor elements, you can simply use event delegation, for example:

document.onclick = function (e) {
  e = e ||  window.event;
  var element = e.target || e.srcElement;

  if (element.tagName == 'A') {
    someFunction(element.href);
    return false; // prevent default action and stop event propagation
  }
};

Check the above example here.

Using jQuery:

$(function() {
    $("a").click(function() {
        return someMethodName($(this).attr('href'));
    });
});

function someMethodName(href)
{
    console.log(href);
    return false;
}