A href not working when onclick works

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Subject is a problem. Well I have, for example, this html

<a href="/en/pages/socials.aspx">Learn more</a>

It doesn't work. Okay, perhaps there are some invisible elements that don't allow to click on it. Here I add onclick property:

<a href="/ru/pages/socials.aspx" onclick="javascript:alert('Hi');">Learn more</a>

But now I see that "Hi" message appears (so <a> tag is clickable), but it doesn't change current page.

Well, ok. Now i'm changing javascript to:

<a onclick="window.location.href='/ru/pages/socials.aspx';return false;"  href="/ru/pages/socials.aspx">Learn more</a>

and now it works as espected, but I'm looking for non-JS pure HTML solution.

Please, advice. Why <a> could be non-clickable for href, but with workable JS onclick event?

asked 2 mins ago

Alex Joukovsky

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A href not working when onclick works