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Old fashioned html onclick return false doesn't work inIE when jQuery script is included

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The most likely cause is that you have a syntax error elsewhere in the page that is preventing javascript from running properly on the page. Turn on script error notifications in your browser to make sure it isn't hiding errors from you.

JohnFx 2010-03-12 21:07:34

That's my guess as well. It works fine for me in IE. Also, I think you meant to have that second link return true, not false in your post. You can even check that out here --> http://jsbin.com/axoqo3.

ryanulit 2010-03-12 21:09:32

Thanks guys, you are both right. Turns out i had a completely unrelated document wide onclick event which IE didn't like.

murdoch 2010-03-12 21:19:58

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I corrected your sample code for the second link and tested in IE 8 and it works fine. I'm willing to bet JohnFx is right and you have some other error on your page stopping it from working.

I tested using an included jquery library as well.

Sample:

   <html>
 <head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
 </head>
 <body>
   <a href="/page.html" onclick="return false;">Dont follow</a>
   <a href="/page.html" onclick="return true;">Follow</a>
 </body>
    </html>

Chuck 2010-03-12 21:19:30

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