Event Capturing, Event Bubbling and jQuery.on()

Question

I have an interesting question about event capturing, bubbling and jQuery.on().

I have recently learned more about the dif

Answer 1

You can't. jQuery events works with event bubbling it doesn't support capturing.

Also see

• Why does jQuery event model does not support event Capture and just supports event bubbling

Answer 2

You can use e.target to get the exact element that was clicked

  $('.parent').on('click', function(e){
    if(e.target.classList.contains('child'))
      // do something
    }
  })