Question

I’m making a script in jQuery, and I have many click links click events. The thing is that I don’t want the links I have click events for to do anything except the event, so I put an e.preventDefault(); at start of all my click events. But I have many click events, so is there a more simple way to just add the e.preventDefault(); to all the links click events? Remember I also have some links that I want to work as they should, so adding the e.preventDefault(); to all the links won’t work, I only want to add it to links with click event.

Answer 1

You could try overriding the bind method, or the click method, before any of your binding code runs. Here I’m overriding the click method in a fairly hacky way. I would really recommend just calling preventDefault where you need it.

(function(){
    var original = jQuery.fn.click;
    jQuery.fn.click = function(){
        // wrap your function in another function
        var f = arguments[0];
        arguments[0] = function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            f(e);
        }
        original.apply( this, arguments );
    }
})();

Example in action: http://jsfiddle.net/k4jzb/