jQuery's ajax is causing a full page refresh in FireFox

Question

I\'m making an ajax call with jQuery. The ajax call works fine in IE 7, but FireFox 3 always does a full page refresh when making this call. The ajax call is POSTing to an

Answer 1

How are you invoking the AJAX method? It could be as simple as canceling the event that initiates the AJAX request if it is also going to cause a submit on the form.

Adding the "return false;" will cause the typical submit action to be cancelled. If it is coming from a text box, then you'll want to add e.preventDefault to the handler for the keypress (or whatever) handler that is set up to do the AJAX.