How to stop refreshing page after ajax call?

Question

I am unable to stop refreshing page after ajax call. I have tried by putting e.preventDefault(); and return false; as well but again my page is refreshing.

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Answer 1

This was happening to me earlier tonight, and I found my way to this question - This might be a long shot but I realized what my issue was and figure this might help someone in the future dealing with this.

Are you using something like live-server locally or some other form of script that intelligently refreshes local code if new files appear in the same working folder? If so - the page is refreshing not because of your code, but because whatever ajax you called manipulated the folder you were working in resulting in the page 'updating'.