The isDefaultPrevented() method checks whether event.preventDefault() was ever called on this event object.
This method returns true in case preventDefault() was called otherwise it returns false.
Here is the simple syntax to use this method:
event.isDefaultPrevented()
Here is the description of all the parameters used by this method:
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Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this method. This example demonstrate how you can stop the browser from changing the page to the href of any anchors.
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/jquery-2.2.0.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("a").click(function(event){ if ( event.isDefaultPrevented() ){ alert( "Default behavior is disabled - 1" ); }else{ alert( "Default behavior is enabled - 1" ); } event.preventDefault(); if ( event.isDefaultPrevented() ){ alert( "Default behavior is disabled - 2" ); }else{ alert( "Default behavior is enabled - 2" ); } }); }); </script> </head> <body> <span>Click the following link and it won't work:</span> <a href="http://http://www.google.com">GOOGLE Inc.</a> </body> </html>
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