in jquery, how to make the right click of the mouse have the same behavior of left click

Question

&lta id="link1" href="link1"&gtlink1&lt/a&gt

what i want to realize: when i right click or left click these link, i both go to the linked pages. I have several questions:

how can I get the href from jquery in firefox and IE?
how can I identify the mouse event in firefox and IE, the event.which has different behaivors in firefox and in IE

Thank you very much

Don't keep asking [the same question over again](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4316996/in-jquery-how-to-make-the-right-click-of-the-mouse-have-the-same-behavior-of-lef), update your previous question. — Nick Craver, Dec 01 '10 at 00:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '10 at 00:38

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To get the href, which is an attribute of the a tag, you can use

var the_href = $('#link1').attr('href');

This works on all major browsers.

answered Dec 01 '10 at 00:38

Camilo Díaz Repka

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

$('#element').mousedown(function(event) {
    switch (event.which) {
        case 1:
        alert('Left mouse button pressed');
        break;
        case 2:
        alert('Middle mouse button pressed');
        break;
        case 3:
        alert('Right mouse button pressed');
        $(this).click();
        event.preventDefault;
        break;
    }
});

(borrowed heavily from: How to distinguish between left and right mouse click with jQuery) I'm Not sure about the meaning of your #1

Adding @Camilo Díaz's answer to mine so you can have one complete answer to both your questions: for #2: var the_href = $('#link1').attr('href')

My stated answer will accomplish your goal without needing the href attribute though.

in jquery, how to make the right click of the mouse have the same behavior of left click

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