I was trying to implement jquery into page

http://codepen.io/chalkers/pen/jrCeI

return false prevents the default browsers behaviour of going to another page.

Thanks, Andrew Chalkley I want to make sure I have a full understanding. We return false because it stops the code from looping?

Not really, it's not looping. Because you're clicking on an anchor or an a tag the browser's default behaviour is to jump to the linked page. Writing a click handler doesn't override the the browsers default behaviour it adds additional behaviour. Returning false tells the browser to stop doing it's default behaviour in other words it tells the browser not to follow the link to the linked page.

Good question.

Ah! Thanks for the explanation. It definitely seems like bad practice for me to put a click handler on all of my anchor tags (I need to id or class them). Take care.

Not really.

If a users JavaScript is switched off you still want there to be a link that will go to a page that shows the content. Alternatively if it's on the same page you could have an id on the div e.g. #events and a link to #events and it will jump down to it when you click on the link.

Regards Andrew