What's the best way to cancel event propagation between nested ng-click calls?

Question

Here\'s an example. Let\'s say I want to have an image overlay like a lot of sites. So when you click a thumbnail, a black overlay appears over your whole window, and a la

Answer 1

If you don't want to have to add the stop propagation to all links this works as well. A bit more scalable.

$scope.hideOverlay( $event ){

   // only hide the overlay if we click on the actual div
   if( $event.target.className.indexOf('overlay') ) 
      // hide overlay logic

}