Overriding default behaviour of anchor tags using jquery

I am trying to override the default behaviour of an anchor tag so i can load in a web page on my server into the exisiting div, rather than a new tab or window.

so far i have:

myContainer.click(function(){                   
                    event.preventDefault();
                    $('a').click(function(){
                        var link = $(this).attr('href');
                        myContainer.load(link);
                    });
            });

In chrome i have to click the link twice before it does anything, in IE an FF it doesnt work at all and refreshes the page with the new link.

Any help is much appreciated.