preventDefault() won't work for me

Question

Why will this refuse to work?
HTML stuff

Answer 1

filter is the wrong method to use here. you should either use find to look for elements in a selection:

$('div#nav-bar').find('a')...

or simply combine that into one selector:

$('div#nav-bar a')...

after you've fixed that, your preventDefault will actually get applied and work, theres nothing wrong with that piece of code directly.