Question

I want to prevent the “#” from being used because I’m using jQuery to do something else with a plugin on click…

<a href="#" id="mylink">My Link</a>

<script>
    $('#mylink').somePlugin().click(false);
</script>

The above works nicely whenever I’ve needed to block the default click.

Now I have something like this below and I want to prevent the default click behavior

<a href="#" id="mylink">My Link</a>

$('#mylink').click( function () {
    //  my code in here
});

I’m just not sure where/how to incorporate click(false) into the code above. Several things I’ve tried didn’t work.

I know… I feel like a newbie asking this one.

Thank-you!

Answer 1

You need to do:

$('#mylink').click( function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();

        // the code here
    });