Can I exclude a button click inside a TR click event?

Question

I am currently highlighting a table row when selected but in one of the cells I have a button. When I click the button I am triggering the table row click event. Is it possible to seperate the two?

My two calls currently look like this:

$('table.table-striped tbody tr').on('click', function () {
   $(this).find('td').toggleClass('row_highlight_css');
}); 


$(".email-user").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    alert("Button Clicked");
});

My HTML looks like this:

<table class="table table-bordered table-condensed table-striped">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>col-1</th>
      <th>col-2</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Some Data</td>
      <td><button class="btn btn-mini btn-success email-user" id="email_123" type="button">Email User</button></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Any idea how I might stop the button click event from triggering the row click event?

Answer 1

You have to use stopPropagation:

$(".email-user").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    e.stopPropagation();
    alert("Button Clicked");
});

(See also : What's the difference between event.stopPropagation and event.preventDefault?)