Prevent click from child firing parent click event

Question

I have a selector that binds a click event which will remove the popup. However, I only want the selector to handle the click, instead of the children of the selector to be

Answer 1

$('.popup-content').bind('click', function(e)
{
    e.stopPropagation();
});

or

$('.popup-content').bind('click', function(e)
{
    return false;
});

In your case - it's same, but sometimes you can't do such thing without e.stopPropagation(). For example:

$('.popup-content a').bind('click', function(e)
{
    e.stopPropagation();
    return confirm("Are you sure?");
});