Question

I have a div that has an onclick that hides the div.

If I have a link inside the div, the link does not work, because the onclick steals the click.

The desired result: if a click is made anywhere inside the div BUT the link, that the div gets hidden. If a click is made ON the link, then I want the link to open in a _blank window, and the div to remain visible.

Is there a way to deal with this with javascript?

Answer 1

DEMO

Inside the click handler for the link, you’ll want to call event.stopPropagation, or set e.cancelBubble to true—whichever your browser prefers. This will prevent the event from bubbling to your div.

document.getElementById("thelink").onclick = function (e) {
    window.open();
    if (e.stopPropogation)
        e.stopPropogation();
    if (e.cancelBubble != null)
        e.cancelBubble = true;
};