I am using the onclick event of a hashed link to open a <div> as a pop up. But the middle click does not trigger the onclick event but only takes the href attribute value of the link and loads the URL in a new page. How can I use middle click to open the <div> as a popup?
EDIT
This answer has been deprecated and doesn't work on Chrome. You will most probably end up using the auxclick event, but please refer to other answers below.
/EDIT
beggs' answer is correct, but it sounds like you want to prevent the default action of the middle click. In which case, include the following
$(#foo).on('click', function(e) {
if (e.which == 2) {
e.preventDefault();
alert(middle button);
}
});<script src=https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js></script>
<a id=foo href=http://example.com>middle click me</a>preventDefault() will stop the default action of the event.
