I love and use this idea, but the OP missed the Shift key. At least Firefox and Chromium use Shift+click to open the link in a new window and I'm pretty sure IE

I love and use this idea, but the OP missed the Shift key. At least Firefox and Chromium use Shift+click to open the link in a new window and I'm pretty sure IE does that as well but I can't test that now. This is what I use: $('.some-snazzy-selector').click(function(ev){ if( ev.which == 2 || ev.metaKey || ev.ctrlKey || ev.shiftKey ) return true; e.preventDefault(); /* Awesome AJAX code goes here */ }); I posted this comment on the blog, but it may reach someone else here, too.