javascript - jQuery DIV click, with anchors

Question

To make click-able divs, I do:

<div class="clickable" url="http://google.com">
    blah blah
</div>

and then

$("div.clickable").click(
function()
{
    window.location = $(this).attr("url");
});

I don't know if this is the best way, but it works perfectly with me, except for one issue: If the div contains a click-able element, such as <a href="...">, and the user clicks on the hyperlink, both the hyperlink and div's-clickable are called

This is especially a problem when the anchor tag is referring to a javascript AJAX function, which executes the AJAX function AND follows the link in the 'url' attribute of the div.

Anyway around this?

Answer 1

If you return "false" from your function it'll stop the event bubbling, so only your first event handler will get triggered (ie. your anchor will not see the click).

$("div.clickable").click(
function()
{
    window.location = $(this).attr("url");
    return false;
});

See event.preventDefault() vs. return false for details on return false vs. preventDefault.