why does IE need for me to click twice

Question

I have this jQuery

    $(\'.billing_info\').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        if(($(\'.shipping_selection\').length) > 0){
                  


        

Answer 1

Perhaps a bit of refactoring would help. Only prevent default when you need to, otherwise let the function pass through to the default submit event.

$('.billing_info').click(function(e){
    if(($('.shipping_selection').length) > 0 && $('.shipping_selection:checked').length == 0){
            e.preventDefault();
            $('.hide_error').show();
            $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: $(".hide_error").offset().top }, "slow");
            $(".hide_error").effect("highlight", {}, 4000);
            return false;
    }
});