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 insert ng-click="$event.stopPropagation" on the parent element of your template, the stopPropogation will be caught as it bubbles up the tree, so you only have to write it once for your entire template.