I appologize for the newb-ish question. I found my answer in "return
false;"
I'm not deleting this in case someone else needs a good example of
where this is necessary. (my background in is LISP (exit) and VB, so
please understand the dumb question).
On Jun 24, 12:50 pm, MiD-AwE <cr.midda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a function that will run everytime a link in my menu is
> clicked. The problem is that one of the links point to an https and
> appropriately opens in a new window/tab. I want to break out of the
> function so that my page does not go blank as a result.
>
> I tried the .end(); function but it doesn't seem to do what I expected
> as my page goes blank and the https is opened in two other windows/
> tabs.
>
> below is my exception as it stands:[not complete code - only for
> illustration]
>
> var href="";
>
> if (href == ""){
> $.end(); <- here is where I need to break out.
> } else {
> $('#content').html($(href).html());
> };
