Javascript native equivalent for jQuery event.preventDefault
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357118/event-preventdefault-vs-return-false">event.preventDefault() vs. return false</a>  </p>
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<p>I'm not sure, but as far as I see, <code>event.preventDefault</code> is coming from <code>jQuery</code>. if yes, I'm wondering is there any native equivalent in Javascript doing the same?</p>
