a href return javascrpt value to link to anchor

[bewin99]

I have a custom piece of Javascript which softly scrolls the page down with a normal anchor link e.g.<a href="#Bottom"> which used to work fine until I got Javascript to listen out for a Java applet:

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">//<![CDATA[ 
function JumpToAnchor(anchorName) 
{ 
  SoftScroll.init(); 
  SoftScroll.go(anchorName); 
} 
//]]> 
</script>

The above will listen for an anchor call from a Java Applet with the following code bellow, that anchor being "Top":

void mousePressed() { 
    JSObject win = (JSObject) JSObject.getWindow(this); 
  String[] arguments = { "Top" }; 
  win.call("JumpToAnchor", arguments);
}

The problem is that the first button at the top of my page is a JPG image and uses just a normal anchor link <a href="#Bottom"> which works, the page goes down, but it does not activate the javascript which scrolls the page smoothly. However when at the bottom of the page and I click the Java Applet (which returns a call) the page scrolls up smoothly.
This leads me to believe that the Javascript takes precedence over the HTML anchor call and so I tried turning the a HREF into a JavaScript call like this:

<a href="#Bottom" OnClick="javascript:JumpToAnchor();"><img src="image.jpg"</a>

But I think the HTML takes one look at the beginning of this a href call and acts on it, thus the page does not flow, it jumps.

What do I do to get the page to scroll smoothly with an image anchor link?

the smooth scrolling javascript:

http://www.projectmio.com/softscroll.js

my page:

http://www.projectmio.com

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try this:

<a href="#Bottom" onclick="JumpToAnchor('Bottom'); return(false);"><img src="image.jpg" /></a>

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[bewin99]

Oh my friend, my very good friend, you did it. The final piece in the puzzle sorted!

Thank you, top marks!