Try using: return false;
Instead of: event.preventDefault();
On Sep 28, 11:21 am, Pitchwife <dandau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to run through the simplest tutorials on jquery and for
> some reason I can't get any of the jquery code to work.
>
> I've downloaded jquery and I've made sure that this file is in the
> same directory as jquery-1.3.2.js.
>
> This is the code taken from the tutorial:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <script src="jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("a").click(function(event){
> alert("As you can see, the link no longer took you to
> jquery.com");
> event.preventDefault();
> });
> });
>
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <a href="http://jquery.com/";>jQuery</a>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> when the user clicks on the link it shouldn't take them to jquery.com,
> instead it should display an alert box.
> but it takes me to jquery.com every time.
>
> Thanks.
