[jQuery] Re: consistently unable to get return false to work, why?

Thanks John,

I wasn't familiar with the .live() before, but of course I'll use that
where I can.

Though I'm honoured and humbled by your response, unfortunately, in
this case, I'm using a 'submit', and the documentation says i can't
use .live on submit currently. (I did try and, and it didn't work).

.bind doesn't seem as efficient, as I'll be regularly binding/
unbinding, but I've added that anyway, and still after the alerts, the
form submits.
As the form itself is created on the fly, i've put the bind inside the
function which creates the form, and unbind before the form is first
created so that i'm not stuck with the old data.

Unfortunately, i'm still stuck with the original problem, return
false; appears to be ignored.

On Jul 27, 2:14 pm, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like you're using the old liveQuery plugin. Why not just use
> .bind() or .live()?
>
> --John
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:11 PM, pedalpete <p...@hearwhere.com> wrote:
>
> > So, this isn't related to any one bit of code, but it seems to be a
> > problem I run into almost everytime i need to stop a form or link for
> > doing what it was originally intended to do (submit).
>
> > Now, i have used return false; many times, but it never works at
> > first.
> > I'm never sure what I end up changing, but something changes, and then
> > all of a sudden it works, and I am once again left stumped as to what
> > I did.
>
> > Yesterday, i renamed a class, and all of a sudden, it worked. Changed
> > the class back, and guess what! It still works, though it hadn't
> > before ...ggggrrrrr
>
> > Today, i'm trying to use a submit, check the e-mail address and then
> > submit the form via ajax.
> > Once again, i can't seem to stop the form from submitting.
>
> > There are no other javascript errors coming up in firefox.
> > my alerts work, so i'm in the right function, but then...the form
> > submits.
>
> > <code>
> >      jQuery('div#selected form#getEmail').livequery('submit', function
> > (){
> >        var sid=jQuery('input.emailsButton', this).attr('id');
> >        var emailAddress=jQuery('input#email', this).val();
> >        alert(sid);
> >        if(isValidEmailAddress(emailAddress)) {
> >        alert('works');
> >                $("input#email).after("works");
> >        } else {
> >                alert('errored');
> >                $("input#email, this").after("<label class='error'>Email is
> > not
> > valid!</label>");
>
> >        }
> >        return false;
> >      });
> > </code>
>
> > I've tried moving the return false; into the if/else, but no changes.
>
> > As mentioned, i think the biggest problem isn't just with this code.
> > There is something I seem to be doing consistently.
>
> > Thanks