Live on anchor tag / hyperlink

Reported by:	mtnbum	Owned by:	mtnbum
Priority:	undecided	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	unfiled	Version:	1.4.4
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

The code below works in all browsers when the anchor tag is changed to a paragraph tag. As is, the code works in Safari and Internet Explorer, but works only sporadically in Firefox.

$('a.this').live("click", function() {

$.post("thing.php", {

orgID: this.id.substring(5)

});

return true;

});

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Change History (4)

Changed February 09, 2011 02:57AM UTC by snover comment:1

owner:	→ mtnbum
status:	new → pending

As per the bug reporting guidelines, please provide a working test case demonstrating this issue.

Changed February 09, 2011 09:15PM UTC by mtnbum comment:2

status:	pending → new

http://jsfiddle.net/b2Bkg/

But that's missing the PHP file, the PHP content is here:

<?php

echo '<pre>';

print_r($_POST);

echo '</pre>';

A working test is at:

http://santiamalpineclub.org/jqtest/

And I added a second question. But the main question is, why is Firefox success sporadic when IE and Safari work all the time?

Changed February 09, 2011 11:03PM UTC by snover comment:3

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	new → closed

Thanks for the report, but this is not a jQuery bug. You are trying to perform an AJAX request without stopping the default action of the link. When the default action occurs, it begins the process of page unloading, which aborts all active AJAX requests. Please use the jQuery Forum for support requests.

Changed February 09, 2011 11:15PM UTC by mtnbum comment:4

To test your reply I set return to false. That resolves one problem, but not both. The updated code is at: