Can I make a <button> not submit a form?

Question

I\'ve got a form, with 2 buttons

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Answer 1

Honestly, I like the other answers. Easy and no need to get into JS. But I noticed that you were asking about jQuery. So for the sake of completeness, in jQuery if you return false with the .click() handler, it will negate the default action of the widget.

See here for an example (and more goodies, too). Here's the documentation, too.

in a nutshell, with your sample code, do this:

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Submit

As an added benefit, with this, you can get rid of the anchor tag and just use the button.