Coulda sworn this wasn’t how it used to work, but with jquery my click event is firing even if I return false on both mousedown and mouseup.
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Coulda sworn this wasn’t how it used to work, but with jquery my click event is firing even if I return false on both mousedown and mouseup.
Because a click event is a mousedown followed by a mouseup. Stopping/absorbing the ancestor events don’t change the fact that they happened, and having happened is all that is required to trigger the descendent.