Global Javascript

Define it as a function.

Loop through the entire document for instances of a link.

And modify the onClick event to run this function every time.

I have been so used to making use of MooTools to do it that I have forgotten how to do it using native JavaScript codes.

well sounds reasonable but a little beyond my skills…

maybe some insights on where <what file> to do this?

or how it might be easier to accomplish with mootools?

thanks for any hep here!

In the theme’s header.php file, in the head section, before the wp_head() call, add something like this:

<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery('a').click(function() {
        // put the code you want to add to all the onclicks here
        // "this" refers to the anchor tag, like this.href gets you
        // the location the link goes to.
        // make your code return true to let the click happen
        // return false to stop the click
    }
});
</script>

Simple as that. If you want to only add it to some links, then you can change the ‘a’ to be a bit more specific.. Like, say, all the links inside the div with a class of “post” would be ‘.post a’ instead.

jQuery. It’s extremely powerful.