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Can I wrap a javascript event in a jQuery event?

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I think it may be the fact that you're passing event in with onclick='test(event)'. I think onclick='test' is enough. I could be wrong though.

Jimmeh 2009-11-25 10:46:48

It's fine. It picks up the `event` global on IE and the `event` argument on other browser and passes it to the function so that it doesn't have to do the usual `if (!e) e= window.event` IE workaround.

bobince 2009-11-25 11:14:04

Answer 2

+2 A:

Try this:

function test(e) {
    $.Event(e).preventDefault();
}

Event object

Darin Dimitrov 2009-11-25 10:48:00

Answer 3

A:

Yes (see Darin's answer). You could also work around IE's lack of preventDefault instead (which is essentially what jQuery is doing):

if ('preventDefault' in event)
    e.preventDefault();
else
    e.returnValue= false;

bobince 2009-11-25 11:17:29

Answer 4

A:

When you just want to execute the javascript - and not redirect - when clicking the href use "return false" in your click function. For example:

$(function(){
        $('a.one').click(function(event){
                var condition = confirm('Do you want to redirect to ...?');
                return condition == true;
        });
});

If you never want the link to redirect use 'javascript:void(0);' as href attribute, all browsers will still render it as a link instead of an anchor (some IE version do this).

Andre Haverdings 2009-11-25 12:12:08

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