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

If a child element is clicked, then the event bubbles up to the parent and event.target !== event.currentTarget.

So in your function, you can check this and return early, i.e.:

var url = $("#clickable a").attr("href");
$("#clickable").click(function(event) {
    if ( event.target !== event.currentTarget ){
        // user clicked on a child and we ignore that
        return;
    }
    window.location = url;
    return true;
})