clicking on child element also triggers click event on it parent [duplicate]

Answer 1

I just solved this by adding event.stopPrpagation on the child function. So for example -

var parentView = new Backbone.View.extend({
    ...
    events: {
        "click": "renderSomething"
    },
    renderSomething: function() {
        //some rendering code
    }
});

var childView = new Backbone.View.extend({
    ...
    events: {
        "click": "renderSomething"
    },
    renderSomething: function(event) {
         event.stopPropagation(); //this will stop the event from being propagated to the parent
        //some rendering code
    }
});

Answer 2

Pass event as argument and use .stopPropagation().

removeMouseHoldDown: function (e) 
{
   e.stopPropagation();
}