Prevent on click on parent when clicking button inside div

Question

Is it possible to prevent the function on the

element from running when clicking the button inside the div?

When clicking the button element

Answer 1

Here is how to master this problem.

Say you have a parent element and some child elements.

1.(1st case) You want the parent click to do not affect the child clicks. Just put at the parent element the .self modifier:

  
 
    Child1
    Child2
    Child3
  

See it in action here

note: if you remove the .self when you click a child, the parent event will fire too.

2.(2nd case) You have the below code:

  

    Click to activate 
    
  

The problem is:

1. When you click the icon element the parent click will fire. (you don't want this)
2. You can NOT use the 1st solution because you want to fire the parent event even if the text "Click to activate" gets clicked.

The solution to this is to put the .stop modifier to the icon element so the parent event will not fire.

See it in action here