jQuery click brings me to top of page. But I want to stay where I am

Question

I have a simple click and show, click and hide button, but when I click it, the page anchors at the top of the page. Is there anyway to prevent this? So that when I click th

Answer 1

Change the hyperlinks to point to a non-existent anchor, like this:

Flag

Or, make your handlers return false, like this:

$('#reportThis').hide();

$('#flagThis').click(function () {
    $('#reportThis').show("slow");
    return false;
});
$('#submitFlag').click(function () {
    $('#reportThis').hide("slow");
    return false;
});