Can someone explain what's the difference between event.preventDefault() and event.stopPropagation()? I have a table and within that table I have an img tag. When I click the img tag, I wan...

I want to make an additional click handler (client page, cant modify his js/html) and it should work like this in my script: 1) event.stopPropagation (pause client click propagation) 2) my functi...

I have a form on which user can tab and jump to different elements. i was to stop the tab when it reaches a special anchor tag. this is the code which work in firefox $('.next-tab').keypress(fun...

I encountered this situation recently (simplified here). Simply wrap a checkbox with an element and apply preventDefault() on it's click event and the checkbox becomes uncheckable. See this fiddl...

Into an input box, I want to stop the propagation of the cursor just as I type on the up key "↑" : Before : tes|t // cursor is before t After : |test // cursor went beginning I want to p...

I have an anchor inside a div with class "element". <div class="element logout"> <div class="subTop"> <a href="home.jsp" onclick="return confirm('Do you want to logout?');">Log...

I've read jQuery doc and I know that there's no point in using stopPropagation() if I use live() to bind event to elements, as the event with live() binds to document node so the event has already ...

I am having a difficult time with keydown and stop propagation i do not want my page to refresh, i have tried every which way i can think of, my current code is <script> $(document).ready...

I have a span tag that looks like this: <span ng-bind-html="item.Name | linky" ng-click="open(item)"></span> within an ng-repeat. I have a problem though, if item.Name contains an e...

I have a side pane that slides in from the left, adding content dynamically with get(). I want all clicks outside the pane to cause it to close by triggering a function. Based on other questions I ...

I created an SVG element with an .on("click") behavior and appended g elements with .on("click") and thought that I could use d3.event.stopPropagation() to keep the SVG click event from firing with...

For some reason clicking the document isn't working in Chrome (the closeQuickView is not being called). The elements are loaded via AJAX and so need to have .on() action (previously .live() which ...

I was to stop the event propagation from the child to the parent, i have a bunch of li tags containing a. $('li a[rel=close]').live('click', function(e){ e.stopPropagation(); e.preventDefault()...

I bind to a link (by using the .live() function of jQuery) click event and then manually add an onclick event handler with pure JS and HTML (like <a href="".... onclick="some action">). I wan...

I was trying to setup this "when you click outside of the element, close it" type of thing using some code I found on Stackoverflow: $(document).click(function() { $('.list-to-hide').hide(); }); ...