Yeah, I agree that this is not ideal - thanks for spotting it, I'll look in to it.
--John On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Kurt Mackey <[email protected]> wrote: > > The event delegation stuff in jQuery seems extra tasty, particularly when you > have to deal with ghetto ad code written in the previous century. > > However, there's one bit of behavior that doesn't act how I'd expect it to. > If you bind a function to click events and return false, it doesn't cancel > the event. > > Example: > > <script type="text/javascript"> > $('a.booya').live('click', function(){ > alert('Clicked!'); > return false; > }); > </script> > <body> > <a href="http://xkcd.com"; class="booya">Clicky clicky.</a> > </body> > > If you click the link, you get the nice popup and the browser happily carries > you on to the location specified by the href. > > Thinking about this, it makes a little bit of sense since the event isn't > really bound to the <a> element. However, I would really like some way to > say "ok, you're done now, don't do anything else" within a delegated event > like this. > > -Kurt > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
