I'm having trouble using the event.preventDefault(); for an ahref on my DOM

Question

I\'m having trouble using the event.preventDefault(); for an ahref on my DOM.

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Answer 1

It's an old question, but if you are using Rails 5.1+ with the vanilla UJS instead of jQuery one, neither event.preventDefault() nor returning false from the method stops rails-ujs from handling it. You need to explicitly call Rails.stopEverything(event)

$('.trash_can a').click(function(event) {
  Rails.stopEverything(event);
  console.log('Clicked Delete');
});