Problem closing the menu when clicking on the page which is already open

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I'm using the touch-menu-la in a Cordova app which consists out of multiple html pages and I'm using the menu to navigate between the pages.
When I'm viewing the 'home' page and I swipe right to get the menu, I don't want the 'home' tab in the menu to reload the page but simply close the menu when I click it. I want this so that the app runs more smoothly.
I've tried using this piece of code in my HTML file but it didn't work:

onclick="TouchMenu.close();"

When I use another custom function instead, it does work so I know the 'onclick' is not the problem.
I've also tried calling TouchMenu.close() in other places but with no luck.

Can anyone help me with this problem?