Question

I have a click event that will not return false after I have called my ajax function i was wondering how I can get around this. I have used e.preventDefault() which works so that the url doesn’t add a hash but when I use return false after my ajax function it doens’t work but If I do it the other way round it works but cancels out my ajax call.

<a href="#">Click me</a>

$('a').click(function(e) {
    getProducts(..., ...., ....) //my ajax function
    e.preventDefault() // doesn't work
    return false; doesn't work either
});

Answer 1

cancel the default action using preventDefault function.

$('a').click(function(e) { 
    getProducts(..., ...., ....) //my ajax function
    e.preventDefault(); 
});