javascript - 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 something like this

$('body').bind('click', function(e){
        //depending on the browser, either srcElement or 
        //originalTarget will be populated with the first
        //element that intercepted the click before it bubbled up
        var originalElement = e.srcElement;
        if(!originalElement){originalElement=e.originalTarget;}                         
});

which works, but I'm not pleased with the two line feature sniffing. Is there a better way?

Answer 1

You can do it in one line with var originalElement = e.srcElement || e.originalTarget; but it ain't pretty JQuery-like ;-)

[Edit: But according to http://docs.jquery.com/Events/jQuery.Event#event.target event.target might do...]