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i calling function click on link. successful call can not fix response of function div

the problem getting result through function , shows me result gone in 2 seconds because page refreshes. how possible set response on page refresh?

<a href="screen.php?{$a}&itemid={$itemarray[sec].itemid}" class="btn itemid"  id="{$itemarray[sec].itemid}" name="itemid" onclick="getqty(this.id);">{$itemarray[sec].itemnm}</a> 

function

function getqty(itemid) {   var datastring = "itemid=" + itemid;    $.ajax({     type:"get",     url:"allqty.php",     data: datastring,     success:function(data)     {       $('.totalqty').html(data)     }   }); } 

here div fix response of function

<div class="totalqty"></div> 

here have added onclick function ajax reponse didn't prevent default action of link i.e. href attribute. add event.preventdefault(); function prevent redirecting on anchor tag click