I’m running into a problem with event.preventDefault not working. In line 92 of this pen it’s not working, but I made this pen to test, and it works. The background is that I’m going to generate a list of search results, and want the user to be able to click them to add them into the master list. T…

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event.preventDefault not working

AbdiViklas September 19, 2016, 12:56am 3

Thanks! That all makes sense. Except… it still doesn’t seem to be working. I tried both routes, and the links still open. !!!

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event.preventDefault not working

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