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

Using event.originalTarget can cause "Permission denied to access property 'XYZ' from a non-chrome context" -error, so i'd recommend using following:

var target = event.target || event.srcElement || event.originalTarget;

event.target works on Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari.