IE and event.PreventDefault()

I recently had to write Javascript which used event.preventDefault() in order to prevent the default action to be triggered. My code worked fine in FF and Chrome but it didn’t work in IE. When using IE you have to use event.returnValue = false;

This made me create the following snippet Smiley

   1: if (event.preventDefault) {
   2:   event.preventDefault();
   3: }
   4: else {
   5:   event.returnValue = false;
   6: }

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