title: How to stop an anchor from redirecting using JQuery
body: <p>How can I stop an anchor tag redirecting to another page if the user is not logged in?  I have a function to check if the user is logged in or not.  I want to do it with JQuery or JavaScript.  Here is what I have tried so far but with no results:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="www.somewhere.com" id="yes"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      $(document).ready(function(){
          $('a').click(function(){
              var id = $(this).attr('id');
              if(id == 'yes'){
                  //i want to prevent
              }else{
                  //redirect
              }
          });
      });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>