Question

$('a').click(function(e){return false;});

It successfully disables links almost everywhere but does not work on the links found in the tooltip-popups on the topic tags on this site (SO). I looked at the DOM and they are indeed <a> tags.

How come?

Is there a more robust way to force my user to stay on the current page? (This is for a bookmarklet where I graphically manipulate the DOM so I need to be able to click and drag everything, including links.)

I know that even if I can disable the regular click functionality on all anchors it won’t do anything for any navigation triggered by other click callbacks on other tags.

Answer 1

try with .on – in e.g. SO sites those links are created later then your event attached

$(document).on('click', 'a', function(e) {
 return false;
});