Angular ng-click $event passes child element as target

Question

For each td element in a table I have an attached ng-click. Here is the (simplified) html for each table cell:

Answer 1

Changing:

angular.element(event.target)

to:

angular.element(event.currentTarget)

fixed my issue.

It seems to me using event.currentTarget is preferred to event.target in the majority of usage cases.