How to stop default link click behavior with jQuer

Question

I have a link on a webpage. When a user clicks it, a widget on the page should update. However, I am doing something, because the default functionality (navigating to a different page) occurs before the event fires.

This is what the link looks like:

  <a href="store/cart/" class="update-cart">Update Cart</a>

This is what the jQuery looks like:

   $('.update-cart').click(function(e) { 
         e.stopPropagation(); 
         updateCartWidget(); 
      });

What is the problem?

Answer 1

You can use e.preventDefault(); instead of e.stopPropagation();

Answer 2

e.preventDefault();

from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/event.preventDefault

Cancels the event if it is cancelable, without stopping further propagation of the event.

Answer 3

You want e.preventDefault() to prevent the default functionality from occurring.

Or have return false from your method.

preventDefault prevents the default functionality and stopPropagation prevents the event from bubbling up to container elements.

Answer 4

$('.update-cart').click(function(e) {
    updateCartWidget();
    e.stopPropagation();
    e.preventDefault();
});

$('.update-cart').click(function() {
    updateCartWidget();
    return false;
});

The following methods achieve the exact same thing.

Answer 5

This code strip all event listeners

var old_element=document.getElementsByClassName(".update-cart");    
var new_element = old_element.cloneNode(true);
old_element.parentNode.replaceChild(new_element, old_element);