PreventDefault alternative for IE8

Question

Situation: Trying to modify VideoJS.com in order to work with IE8 and Youtube Chromeless API.

Problem: Progressbar dragging doesn't work (error on event.preventDefault(); 'not supported' according to debug)

Demo: http://alpha.dealertouch.mobi/video/demo.html

What I tried: Skip 'preventDefault' when it's IE, but if I do that I'll lose the functionality of the progressbar (drag/click forward and backward)

Question: What is the best way to solve this problem for IE8?

score 29 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '11 at 19:10

I use something like:

(event.preventDefault) ? event.preventDefault() : event.returnValue = false;

the event.returnValue property is the closest IE equivalent to preventDefault.

Using

return false;

can sometimes also work, but it can lead to unexpected behavior sometimes when mixed with e.g. jQuery (jQuery also does stopPropagation...which is usually what you want, but...), so I prefer not to rely on it.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '10 at 15:29

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IE8 does not support preventDefault; it has returnValue instead. jQuery should normalize that for you, though. Are you sure you are calling preventDefault on the jQuery event wrapper (and not the actual event object)?

answered Dec 12 '10 at 15:29

Tgr

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '11 at 13:41

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Just use

return false;

it's cross browser and has the same purpose as event.preventDefault();

THe same instruction in jQuery is slightly different, it includes also stopPropagation().

answered May 31 '11 at 13:41

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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357118/event-preventdefault-vs-return-false for a caveat of this approach. – Bungle Jan 20 '14 at 21:46

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:07

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Use

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

jquery docs

answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:07

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As stated in the question, which is even titled "PreventDefault alternative for IE8" this does not work in IE8. – Purrell Sep 28 '11 at 06:17
@Purrell this was a old question that was edited since my answer, thanks for your opinion... – Traveling_Monk Sep 28 '11 at 08:37

PreventDefault alternative for IE8

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