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Asked: 2026-06-09T21:08:40+00:00

Here is a fiddle to prove my point. When I use $(document).on(click….) , I

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Here is a fiddle to prove my point. When I use $(document).on("click"....), I can still click on tags inside a disabled button. This behavior does not occur with $("button").click(..

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Can someone explain this discrepancy? Is it a bug, or a feature of jQuery?

Edit: The workaround I have come up with:

$(document).on("click", "button > *", function() {
    if ( $(this).parent().is(":disabled") )
    {    
        return false;
    }
});

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  1. Editorial Team

    This must have been a bug with JQuery 1.7.1. If you move to 1.7.2 or 1.8, it goes away.

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