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).

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Answer 1

In conjunction with How to detect a click outside an element? here is how you might trap a sub-widget with similar hide-when-clicked-outside functionality to prevent your own pop-over from hiding along with it; in this case, we are trapping the JQuery UI Datepicker pop-over widget:

// not using jquery .one handler for this, so we can persist outside click later
$('html').click(function(evt) {
    // just return if element has the datepicker as a parent
    if ($(evt.target).parents('#ui-datepicker-div').length>0) return;

    //toggle shut our widget pop-over
    $('#mywidget').toggle();

    // now, unbind this event since our widget is closed:
    $(this).unbind(evt);
});