How do I prevent a parent's onclick event from firing when a child anchor is clicked?

Question

I\'m currently using jQuery to make a div clickable and in this div I also have anchors. The problem I\'m running into is that when I click on an anchor both click events ar

Answer 1

Here's an example using Angular 2+

For example, if you wanted to close a Modal Component if the user clicks outside of it:

// Close the modal if the document is clicked.

@HostListener('document:click', ['$event'])
public onDocumentClick(event: MouseEvent): void {
  this.closeModal();
}

// Don't close the modal if the modal itself is clicked.

@HostListener('click', ['$event'])
public onClick(event: MouseEvent): void {
  event.stopPropagation();
}