John Leverage says:

Dude are you new to web development?
return false is one of the oldest sentences in programming.
god bless all of you “web developers” who dont know a thing about porgramming.

Gary Storey says:

This might be a little overkill but to play it safe maybe try this:

$("a").click(function(e) {
try {
e.preventDefault();
//do stuff here
return false;
} catch(err) {
return false;
}


Skilldrick says:

Handy tip, cheers Chris

Mark says:

My favorite example of this to show off is something like this:


$("a.togglePanel").click(function(){
//do something to toggle a panel
return false;// the Google Analytics tracker below won't get called
// e.preventDefault(); will be best here to allow the other method below to run
});

// track all link clicks w/ the GA helper
$("a").click(function(){
googleAnalyticsHelper( window.title, $(this).href() );
});

Abraão Coelho says:

I was wondering about that just the other day!! I was using return false; almost always and never knew the difference between them.