Prevent calling parent when nested ui-sref

Question

Let say I have nested DOMs and each has ui-sref for different angular-ui-router state. I want to click outer to only alert outer and c

Answer 1

Add the event stop propogation/event prevent default at ur inner stateprovider :

  $stateProvider.state("outer", {
      url: "/outer",
      resolve: {
       test: function() {
      alert("Triggered state outer");
      return true;
    }
  }
}).state("inner", {
     url: "/inner",
     resolve: {
     test: function() {

      alert("Triggered state inner");
      //$event.stopPropagation();
      $event.preventDefault();
      return true;
    }
  }
})

Update 1: I tried on plunker demo and $event is available. As per angular doc also for
Event object is available as $event. DEMO Angular doc

Update 2: Above works if u press outer div first but that's not rt solution I agree. So here is another solution which works. checking the statechangestart of scope and saving last state name in var and checking if its inner then event preventdefault;

app.controller('MainCtrl', function($scope) {
   $scope.name = 'World';
   var laststate = "";
   $scope.$on('$stateChangeStart',
     function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
               //alert(laststate);
      if (laststate == "inner") {
         event.preventDefault();
       }
      laststate = toState.name;
    });
  });

DEMO Plunker