Prevent navigation from a handled link.
jQuery: preventDefault cancels the browser action without cancelling event bubbling.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#destination">Handle link</a><output></output>
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$('a').on('click',event=> { event.preventDefault(); $('output').text(event.isDefaultPrevented()); });
</script>
</body>
</html>Expected output EXAMPLE
Click the link. The output displays "true", and the URL fragment stays empty because the default navigation was prevented.
Details
Save as example.html beside jquery.min.js (jQuery 3.5.1). The browser test uses that local library and checks the resulting behavior. preventDefault cancels the browser action without cancelling event bubbling.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · Chromium 141.0.7390.37 · libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0; jQuery 3.5.1
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
Chromium: open example.html; execute the published browser assertions- Container image ID
sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd- Code SHA-256
1594bb80675ff36e279b8808a4e8373a118ece29a456a2abd57b29b581d62d4d- Dependencies
- libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0; jQuery 3.5.1
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
# No input files required.
Observed standard output
Expected output describes the rendered page. The standard-output record below is the browser test harness receipt; the additional assertions check the result and interactions.
Prevent navigation from a handled link: browser checks passed.
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Shape/content assertions. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.
Additional assertions that passed
Checks recorded by the test harness. Where Python assertions are shown, browser cases use Playwright and simulator cases may inspect pin transitions: result.stdout is captured output, work is the temporary directory, and Path is pathlib.Path. The harness also imports json and csv.
await page.locator('a').click()
assert await page.locator('output').inner_text()=='true'
assert not await page.evaluate('location.hash')