Best way to get the Original Target

Question

What\'s a jQuery like and/or best practices way of getting the original target of an event in jQuery (or in browser javascript in general).

I\'ve been using someth

Answer 1

I believe e.target is what you require

$('body').bind('click', function(e){
                e.target // the original target
                e.target.id // the id of the original target                                               
});

If you go to the jQuery in Action website and download the source code, take a look at

• Chapter 4 - dom.2.propagation.html

which deals with event propagation with bubble and capture handlers