Update wording of prevent default description (#24706)

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2018-12-13 05:29:00 -06:00
committed by Manish Giri
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@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ It's important to note that using onclick we can add just one listener function.
In the above example, when a user clicks on the `paragraph` element in the `html`, they will see an alert showing `onclick Event triggered`.
### Preventing default action
However if we attach `onclick` to links (HTML's `a` tag) we might want prevent default action to occur:
By attaching `onclick` to links (HTML's `a` tag), we can also prevent the default click action from occurring.
```javascript
<a href="https://guide.freecodecamp.org" onclick="myAlert(event)">Guides</a>