How to ignore click event when clicked on children

Question

So I have the following scenario:

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Answer 1

You can test which node was clicked with the target property of the event object:

$("#block").click(function(event) { 
    if(event.target.nodeName != 'A') {
        alert('test');
    }
});

I suggest to read Event Properties from quirksmode.org.