diff --git a/assets/links.js b/assets/links.js
index 56e2ccb..236cfff 100644
--- a/assets/links.js
+++ b/assets/links.js
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ function buildRepoLink() {
     } else {
         window.location.assign(`/repo/${hoster}/${owner}/${repoName}${qparams}`);
     }
+
+    return false;
 }
 
 function buildCrateLink() {
@@ -36,10 +38,12 @@ function buildCrateLink() {
     let crate = formRef.elements["crateName"].value;
     let crateVer = formRef.elements["crateVersion"].value;
 
-    if (crateVer.length == 0) {
+    if (crateVer.length === 0) {
         // default to latest version
         window.location.assign(`/crate/${crate}`);
     } else {
         window.location.assign(`/crate/${crate}/${crateVer}`);
     }
+
+    return false;
 }
diff --git a/src/server/views/html/index.rs b/src/server/views/html/index.rs
index 626fe57..a1ccae0 100644
--- a/src/server/views/html/index.rs
+++ b/src/server/views/html/index.rs
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ fn link_forms() -> Markup {
                             p class="help" id="baseUrlHelp" { "Path within the repository where the " code { "Cargo.toml" } " file is located." }
                         }
 
-                        input type="submit" class="button is-primary" value="Check" onclick="buildRepoLink();";
+                        input type="submit" class="button is-primary" value="Check" onclick="return buildRepoLink();";
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ fn link_forms() -> Markup {
                             label class="label" { "Crate Name" }
 
                             div class="control" {
-                                input class="input" type="text" id="crateName" placeholder="serde-derive" required;
+                                input class="input" type="text" id="crateName" placeholder="serde" required;
                             }
                         }
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ fn link_forms() -> Markup {
                             p class="help" { "If left blank, defaults to the latest version." }
                         }
 
-                        input type="submit" class="button is-primary" value="Check" onclick="buildCrateLink();";
+                        input type="submit" class="button is-primary" value="Check" onclick="return buildCrateLink();";
                     }
                 }
             }