Jan 6, 2011 · Back in the old days, Netscape advocated event capturing, while Microsoft promoted event bubbling. Both are part of the W3C Document Object Model Events standard (2000). IE < 9 uses only event bubbling, whereas IE9+ and all major browsers support both. On the other hand, the performance of event bubbling may be slightly lower for complex DOMs.

Jan 18, 2018 · It is caused due to event bubbling.Triggering an event on child propagates upward toward its parent.In your case click event on image also triggers click event on parent div.use event.stopPropagation() to prevent this from happening. HTML : pass the event as parameter to event listener function

event.stopPropagation() Stops the bubbling of an event to parent elements, preventing any parent handlers from being notified of the event. event.preventDefault() Prevents the browser from executing the default action. Use the method isDefaultPrevented to know whether this method was ever called (on that event object).

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Nov 18, 2011 · As you know, events usually bubble up in JavaScript, so the event handler of the element that fires the event is executed first, then the event handler of the parent element is called and so on. This behaviour causes some problems on a project I'm currently working on, I would rather have the execution order reversed.

The concept of "bubbling up" is like if you have a child element with a click event and you don't want it to trigger the click event of the parent. You could use event.stopPropagation() . event.stopPropagation() basically says only apply this click event to THIS CHILD NODE and don't tell the parent containers anything because I don't want them ...

The event travels down to the target itself. The event moves to its bubbling phase and executes doSomething(), which is registered to element2 for the bubbling phase. The event travels upwards again and checks if any ancestor element of the target has an event handler for the bubbling phase. The event finds one on element1.

Jan 28, 2012 · According to Quirks mode, the event propagation starts with capturing on the outer div, reaches the bottom and then bubbles up to the top. The problem was when I started doing some tests. The problem was when I started doing some tests.

There are two ways to get the event object from inside a function: The first argument, in a W3C-compliant browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9+)

Apr 8, 2013 · If you want to prevent event bubbling and cancel default action then you can return false from the event handler. $('.btnMask').click(function() { return false; }); Or use preventDefault and stopPropagation