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

var inner = document.querySelector("#inner");
var outer = document.querySelector("#outer");
inner.addEventListener('click',innerFunction);
outer.addEventListener('click',outerFunction);

function innerFunction(event){
  event.stopPropagation();
  console.log("Inner Functiuon");
}

function outerFunction(event){
  console.log("Outer Functiuon");
}