jQuery: Capture anchor href onclick and submit asynchronously

Question

I almost never get to play with client-side stuff, and this presumably simple task is kicking my butt :)

I have some links. OnClick I want to prevent the default act

Answer 1

Try this

$('a').click(function (event) 
{ 
   event.preventDefault(); 

   var url = $(this).attr('href');
   $.get(url, function(data) {
     alert(data);
    });

 });