How to determine if child was clicked in Jquery

Question

Is there a ways in jQuery to tell which child was clicked if the onclick event was binded to the parent?

For instance:

  $(\'#daddy\').click(function ()          


        

Answer 1

You can use the event.target to determine what was clicked:

  $('#daddy').click(function (e) {
      alert(e.target.id); // The id of the clicked element
  });

Here's a simple example.