Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

Preventing default actions

If our click event handler was registered on a link element (<a>) rather than a generic <button> element outside of a form, we would face another problem. When a user clicks on a link, the browser loads a new page. This behavior is not an event handler in the same sense as the ones we have been discussing; instead, this is the default action for a click on a link element. Similarly, when the Enter key is pressed while the user is editing a form, the submit event may be triggered on the form, but then the form submission actually occurs after this.

If these default actions are undesired, calling .stopPropagation() on the event will not help. These actions don't occur in the normal flow of event propagation. Instead, ...