No problem with jquery

The “onclick event-handler return false” bug as described in this article does not show up in Internet Explorer 7 when ones uses the DOM scripting library jquery.

If we have anchor elements on a web page and we wish to open in a new window (always the same one) any document these elements link to, then we write the following jquery code :

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('a').click(function() {
    window.open($(this).attr('href'), 'new_window');
    return false;
  });
});

Just like we expect it, the return false statement does cancel the default action of the browser for the anchor element.