jQuery event capturing stop propagation

Question

I have a event listener on a parent div, and i'd like it not to get fired on child div onclick as well.

I'm using jQuery for this, since i need the .on() being the element dynamically created, also the child div is dynamically created with an inline onclick="myFunction()". When the onclick myFunction occurs in the child i don't want the parent .on(click) gets called again.

html:

    <div id="parent" class="areatext" onkeydown="checkR()">
    <div id="input" contenteditable="true" style="min-height:26px;" onkeyup="checkTyping()"></div>
    <div id="child" onclick="myFunction()"></div>
    </div>

js file 1:

$('#parent').on('click', function(event){
    $('#input').focus();
    console.log('parent clicked!');
    event.stopPropagation();
});

js file 2:

function myFunction(event){
   // actions
   // when this is clicked, #parent .on(click) also triggers, i don't want that
}

Answer 1

As you said, jQuery doesn't support listening to events in the capturing phase; you'll have to use standard Javascript instead of jQuery in order to accomplish that. For example:

const parent = document.querySelector('#parent');
parent.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  if (e.target.matches('#child')) return;
  e.stopPropagation();
  console.log('parent was clicked, but not on child');
}, true);
function myFunction(event){
   console.log('child was clicked on');
   // when this is clicked, #parent .on(click) also triggers, i don't want that
}

<div id="parent" class="areatext">
  parent
  <div id="input" contenteditable="true" style="min-height:26px;" onkeyup="checkTyping()"></div>
  <div id="child" onclick="myFunction()">child</div>
</div>

Answer 2

If you want parent div's click handler not to be called when child div is clicked, you'll have to add event.stopPropagation() in the child div's click event handler.

According to your code:

$('#parent').on('click', function(event){
    $('#input').focus();
    console.log('parent clicked!');
    //event.stopPropagation(); <-- Not needed
});

$('#parent').on('click', '.child', function(event){
    event.stopPropagation();
    // ^^^^ Add here
    console.log('child clicked!');
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="parent" class="areatext" onkeydown="checkR()">Parent
    <div id="input" contenteditable="true" style="min-height:26px;" onkeyup="checkTyping()"></div>
    <div class="child">child</div>
</div>

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I suggest you read https://javascript.info/bubbling-and-capturing to know how bubbling and capturing works in JavaScript.