First off … I’m primarily a designer, and not a programmer, so be gentle and use small words when providing help 
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I have a css modal window. When I click the link, a modal window opens. When I close the link, the window closes, and the page jumps all the way to the top of the page. I need the page to stay where it is when the modal window is closed.
After doing some searching, I know this is because of the anchor tag being called in the close link:
<a class="modal-close" href="#" onclick="modal_close('ModalVid');">×</a>
I posted the modal code on codepen… https://codepen.io/jabbamonkey/pen/JjPMmKv
WHAT I’VE TRIED
After some online searching, I saw recommendations to add the preventDefault() function OR “return false”. So, I tried to add it to the onclick close function … but neither worked. I may not be using the two correctly (my knowledge of javascript is pretty limited)
PREVENTDEFAULT()
function modal_close(id) {
var ModalVideo = document.getElementById(id);
ModalVideo.pause();
preventDefault();
}
RETURN FALSE
function modal_close(id) {
var ModalVideo = document.getElementById(id);
ModalVideo.pause();
return false
}
Other recommendations said to try to add “overflow: hidden;” to the body, but I think that recommendation only works for jquery bootstrap modals.
Please help. Thanks…