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 need to stop the event from reaching (bubbling to) the parent (the div). See the part about bubbling here, and jQuery-specific API info here.