html div onclick event

Question

I have one html div on my jsp page, on that i have put one anchor tag, please find code below for that,

Answer 1

You need to read up on event bubbling and for sure remove inline event handling if you have jQuery anyway

Test the click on the div and examine the target

Live Demo

$(".expandable-panel-heading").on("click",function (e) {
    if (e.target.id =="ancherComplaint") { // or test the tag
        e.preventDefault(); // or e.stopPropagation()
        markActiveLink(e.target);
    }    
    else alert('123');
});
function markActiveLink(el) {   
    alert(el.id);
}