This may be more IE8 than jQuery.

If you run $("a:not([href^='http'])").click(function () {})

It will work in all browsers on first bind.

After filling a div with ajax request, the rebind in IE8 results in any links in the newly loaded page appearing to jquery with "http:" prefixed even though the page requested has links like href="index?action=etc".

So the above command works in all other browser still but not IE8 after ajax load and rebind (havent had chance to test IE7/6).

Attached is some example code.