What happen if you return false from a jQuery event handler?

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Rajkiran Swain · Answer

It used to stop the event bubbling up

Yatendrasinh Joddha · Answer

return false from within a jQuery event handler is effectively the same as calling both e.preventDefault and e.stopPropagation. e.preventDefault() will prevent the default event from occuring e.stopPropagation() will prevent the event from bubbling up and return false will do both Read here for more : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357118/event-preventdefault-vs-return-false