I need to capture an event instead of letting it bubble. This is what I want:
<body>
<div>
</div>
</body>
From this sample code I have a click event bounded on the div and the body. I want the body event to be called first. How do I go about this?
stopPropagation() method stops the bubbling of an event to parent elements, preventing any parent event handlers from being executed. Tip: Use the event. isPropagationStopped() method to check whether this method was called for the event.
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.
Use event capturing instead:-
$("body").get(0).addEventListener("click", function(){}, true);
Check the last argument to "addEventListener" by default it is false and is in event bubbling mode. If set to true will work as capturing event.
For cross browser implementation.
var bodyEle = $("body").get(0);
if(bodyEle.addEventListener){
bodyEle.addEventListener("click", function(){}, true);
}else if(bodyEle.attachEvent){
document.attachEvent("onclick", function(){
var event = window.event;
});
}
IE8 and prior by default use event bubbling. So I attached the event on document instead of body, so you need to use event object to get the target object. For IE you need to be very tricky.
I'd do it like this:
$("body").click(function (event) {
// Do body action
var target = $(event.target);
if (target.is($("#myDiv"))) {
// Do div action
}
});
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