event.preventDefault() not working in Mozilla or IE

Question

I\'m finally at the point of testing my site in other browsers (built it mostly in Chrome). Unfortunately, a lot of stuff seems to function differently. I\'ll begin with the v

Answer 1

Set the console to persist the console.log. You should see a JavaScript error

e.preventDefault();  //<--trying to prevent the form from submitting

Where is e defined?

function checkLogin()  <-- No e defined

You will have an error which means the form will submit since nothing prevented it from stopping.

function checkLogin(e) {
    e = e || window.event;

and since it is not a jQuery wrapped event object, you need to do it like

$.Event(e).preventDefault();