Howto: div with onclick inside another div with onclick javascript

60
votes

just a quick question. I'm having a problem with divs with onclick javascript within each other. When I click on the inner div it should only fire it's onclick javascript, but the outer div's javascript is also being fired. How can the user click on the inner div without firing the outer div's javascript?

<html>
<body>
<div onclick="alert('outer');" style="width:300px;height:300px;background-color:green;padding:5px;">outer div
    <div onclick="alert('inner');"  style="width:200px;height:200px;background-color:white;" />inner div</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
11
javascripthtmlonclick
Duplicate. stackoverflow.com/questions/2015041/… - vpram86
Duplicate question, but better answers. - Michael Jasper

11 Answers

109
votes

Basically there are two event models in javascript. Event capturing and Event bubbling. In event bubbling, if you click on inside div, the inside div click event fired first and then the outer div click fired. while in event capturing, first the outer div event fired and than the inner div event fired. To stop event propagation, use this code in your click method.

   if (!e) var e = window.event;
    e.cancelBubble = true;
    if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
23
votes

Check out the info on event propagation here

In particular you'll want some code like this in your event handlers to stop events from propagating:

function myClickHandler(e)
{
    // Here you'll do whatever you want to happen when they click

    // now this part stops the click from propagating
    if (!e) var e = window.event;
    e.cancelBubble = true;
    if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
}
6
votes

Just add this code :

window.event.stopPropagation();
5
votes

return false; from the inner div's onclick function:

<div onclick="alert('inner'); return false;" ...

What you're dealing with is called event propagation.

5
votes

This is a case of event bubbling.

You can use 

e.cancelBubble = true; //IE

and

e.stopPropagation(); //FF
3
votes

One more way for webkit based browsers:

<div onclick="alert('inner'); event.stopPropagation;" ...
0
votes

Here is some more reference to help you in understanding javascript event bubbling.

0
votes

you have two 'div' and three '/div'.

0
votes

This was very helpful, but it didn't work for me.

What i did is described here.

So I put a condition to the outer onclick event:

if( !event.isPropagationStopped() ) {
    window.location.href = url;
}
0
votes

You can use

    $("divOrClassThatYouDontWantToPropagate").click(function( event ) {
      event.stopPropagation();
    });
0
votes

This worked for me in Jquery:

$('#outer_element').click(function(event) {
    if(event.target !== event.currentTarget) return;
    alert("Outer element is clicked")                       
});

This way, if the current target is not the same as the outer div, it will do nothing. You can implement normal functions on the child elements.