How do I prevent a parent's onclick event from firing when a child anchor is clicked?

Question

I\'m currently using jQuery to make a div clickable and in this div I also have anchors. The problem I\'m running into is that when I click on an anchor both click events ar

Answer 1

you can also try this

$("#clickable").click(function(event) {
   var senderElementName = event.target.tagName.toLowerCase();
   if(senderElementName === 'div')
   {
       // do something here 
   } 
   else
   {
      //do something with  tag
   }
});