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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Perform: Part 1

Posted by Reid Young
Reid Young
Courses Plus Student 14,209 Points

Is preventDefault() method deprecated?

As of Sept. 8, 2016 http://api.jquery.com/category/events/browser-events/ shows only 3 methods, none of which are preventDefault().

Is the method deprecated, and if so, what is a suitable replacement to test a console.log() view of $(this).attr("href") ? Below is my JavaScript in case my syntax is incorrect.

// 1. Capture click event when user clicks on link to an image $("#image-gallary a").click(function(event){ event.preventDefault(); var href = $(this).attr("href"); console.log(href);

// 1.1, Show the overlay // 1.2, Update overlay with the linked to image // 1.3, Add alt attribute of the image to the overlay (get childs alt text and display it as a caption)
});

2 Answers

Reid Young
Reid Young
Courses Plus Student 14,209 Points

Thank you! That was driving me nuts :)

Sergey Blokhin
Sergey Blokhin
9,612 Points
Sergey Blokhin
Sergey Blokhin
9,612 Points

event.preventDefault(); Is not working, please what s the problem?

<ul > <a id="bibi" href="images/boat.png"><img src="images/boat.png"></a> </ul>

<script> $("#bibi").click(function(event){

event.PreventDefault(); var href = $(this).attr("href"); console.log(href); }); </script>