Effect whenever a link is clicked

Effect whenever a link is clicked

I have navigational links on my page, but when someone clicks one, i would like an effect to occur, and then the browser to navigate to the link and it usually would.

So far I have:

   $('a').click(function(event) {
       
        $("#box").children("div.nav:visible").hide("blind", {});

                   // HERE I WOULD LIKE THE LINK TO GO ON
   });