Effect of on:click handlers on Client side Navigation

[EmilienKopp]

Just to make sure I got everything right before submitting a PR to the documentation, but am I correct in my understanding that any <a href=... > tag with an on:click handler will cause Sveltekit to ignore client side navigation altogether?

I had one on:click|stopPropagation on one of my links that caused me to pull my hair for a few days trying to understand why my whole tree of load functions would rerun though I had no invalidating behavior in any of them. Removing it did seem to solve the issue, but I feel like this would deserve a small warning in the docs.

[brunnerh]

but am I correct in my understanding that any <a href=... > tag with an on:click handler will cause Sveltekit to ignore client side navigation altogether?

That is not the case, but if you add stopPropagation that will of course mess with any mechanism that relies on the event bubbling up the tree. Client-side navigation appears to be one such mechanism.

[EmilienKopp]

Thanks for the humbling clarification! It just makes so much sense and I feel stupid for not realizing, and now I realize that indeed onclick handlers alone never appeared to be causing such behavior.