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Michael Williamson
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event.preventDefault() not working for me here

https://jsfiddle.net/codendive/xy6ne32m/

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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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You attach the event handler for anchor tags before adding the anchor tags to the page. The event handler will only be attached to anchor tags that are currently on the page, but not any that would be added in the future. You can and the handler to the tags in the callback after you add them or add the handler to a parent that already exists, llike the wrapper div.

Michael Williamson
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Michael Williamson
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your answer lead me to this, thank you for you guidance.

$(selector).on(event,childSelector,data,function,map)

childSelector Optional. Specifies that the event handler should only be attached to the specified child elements (and not the selector itself, like the deprecated delegate() method).

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/event_on.asp