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

I had a similar issue with Firefox using Ajax. I had several input elements within a form tag. However, the form tag was causing the page to refresh, even when I replaced my tag with a button tag instead. I replaced the form tag with a div and the problem went away.

I also tried e.preventDefault(), as mentioned above. That also solved the problem, while allowing me to continue to use the form tag.