I have a situation where an element, of type radio, is contained in an element. The anchor element has a href but I want to override that behaviour by adding a jQuery 'click' handler to the element.
The click handler makes the radio button inside it the
selected one within the group. This all works when the anchor is clicked, however, when the radio button is clicked it appears that jQuery resets the
selected radio to the previously
selected one!
Here is a the simplified page that duplicates the issue:
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#a1").click(function(event) {
anchorClicked("a1");
return false;
});
$("#a2").click(function(event) {
anchorClicked("a2");
return false;
});
});
function anchorClicked(anchorId) {
$('#' + anchorId + ' input:radio').attr("checked", true);
alert("Look at what is
selected and what happens after the event when this dialog is closed!");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<ul>
<li id="li1">
<a id="a1" href="javascript:alert('default functionality')">
<input value="1" name="rb" type="radio" id="rb1">
<span>Details 1</span>
</a>
</li>
<li id="li2">
<a id="a2" href="javascript:alert('default functionality')">
<input value="2" name="rb" type="radio" id="rb2">
<span>Details 2</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</form>
</body>
Does anyone have any idea how I can prevent jQuery for resetting the radio button?
