But it's a button. I didn't think a click event handler worked for buttons?
Scott González wrote:
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> Use click instead of mouseup, that's the event that triggers the
> default behavior in browsers.
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> On Apr 20, 3:07 am, Yansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting how to use the "one()" event handler
>> properly, but when I tried to use it in the bit of code below, I was
>> unable
>> to prevent the button from submitting the form (which it was now inserted
>> into). I tried "return false" as well as an "event.preventDefault()", but
>> clicking on the button still seemed to submit the form.
>>
>> The only way I could get it to prevent submitting the form was to use the
>> .mouseup() event handler rather than .one().
>>
>> Why didn't "return false" or "event.preventDefault();" stop the form from
>> being submitted?
>>
>> The piece of code:
>>
>> $('#modewc').parent().append('<br /><br /><button style="font-size:10px;"
>> id="remHwb">Remove Word Breaks</button>');
>>
>> if(!$("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'preview']")[0]){
>>
>> $('#remHwb').attr('disabled','disabled');
>>
>> }
>>
>> else{
>> $('#remHwb').one("mouseup", function(e){
>>
>> e.preventDefault();
>>
>> var sdf =
>> $.trim($('.bodytext:last>p').html()).split("\xAD\x20")
>>
>> $('#body').val('');
>>
>> for(var p=0;p<sdf.length;p++){
>>
>> if( (p == sdf.length-1) && ((sdf[p].length<34) ||
>> (sdf[p].indexOf(' ')>
>> 0)) ){
>>
>>
>> $('#body').val($('#body').val()+sdf[p].replace(RegExp("<br>", "gim"),
>> "\n"));
>>
>> break;
>>
>> }
>> else{
>>
>> sdf[p] =
>> sdf[p].slice(0,-2)+'[**]'+sdf[p].slice(-1);
>>
>> }
>> sdf[p] = sdf[p].replace(RegExp("<br>", "gim"),
>> "\n");
>>
>> $('#body').val($('#body').val()+sdf[p]);
>>
>> }
>>
>> $(this).attr('disabled','disabled');
>>
>> return false;
>>
>> });}
>>
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