Unfortunately (in your case), ajax is asynchronous, meaning that your click function starts the ajax call and then continues running without paying any attention to what it does (and thus returns nothing at the end).

The success function is called later (when the ajax returns successfully) and is a completely different function, so its returning true has no bearing on your original click function.

All this to say, you will need to use javascript to override the anchor tag's natural behavior (go directly to google.com) and what happens afterward (redirect).

$('.continue').click(function (e) {

    e.preventDefault(); // otherwise, it won't wait for the ajax response

    $link = $(this); // because '$(this)' will be out of scope in your callback



    $.ajax({

        type: 'POST',

        url: '/url-to-post-to',

        data: mydata,

        contentType: 'application/json',

        error: function (err) {

            alert(error -  + err);

        },

        success: function () {

            window.location.href = $link.attr('href');

        }

    });

});