How to disable <a onclick> when the user holds control.

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Published on 2010-04-15T19:42:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 19:53 UTC
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Usually, when people click on a link, I have onclick bound to it. And then return false.

When people click with "control", they expect a new page to open up. Therefore, I want to ignore the onclick AND/OR detect it. How do I do this?

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