Question

I get 2 alert when I click on the sub menu, the pop up first says 1 and then a second pop up gives me 2. I would like the alert to be 0,1,2,3 etc in correct sequence as per navigating an array. Is it not the sub menu item just the following item in an array?

<ul id="menu">
   <li><a href="page1">Item 1</a></li>
   <li><a href="page2">Item 2</a> 
      <ul id="sub-menu">
           <li><a href="page3">Item 3</a></li>
      </ul>
   </li>
   <li><a href="page4">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>

Jquery:

jQuery (function($) {
  $("#menu .menu li").each(function (index) {
     var item = $(this);
     $("a", item).click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        alert(index);
     });
  });
});

Answer 1

A way without using event.stopPropagation():

jQuery (function($) {
  $("#menu .menu li").each(function (index) {
    var item = $(this);
    $("> a", item).click(function (e) {
      e.preventDefault();
      alert(index);
    });
  });
});​

It will only trigger for the immediate child of li.

Here is the working example.