Question

I’m trying to implement a bookmarklet where the user will click one <img/> and will be redirected to another page where he will annotate the image.

If the image is inserted within a HTML anchor:

<a href="http://anywhere.org"><img src=""http://anywhere.org/image.png"/></a>, 

Can I prevent the anchor to be activated? I tried

event.stopPropagation();

and/or

event.preventDefault();

but it didn’t work

Answer 1

First you can check if the event can be cancelated or not using:

var bool = event.cancelable;

And you can always try the classic

return false:

That will pretty much stop it.