Question

I have the following code for example

$("a.foo").bind(function (e){
    var t;
    if ( $(e.target).is("a") ){
        t = $(e.target);
    }else{
        t = $(e.target).parent("a");

    }
    var data = t.attr("data-info");

});

In english. I might have a list of anchors within which there may be
a number of spans. Each anchor is declared as

<a class="foo" href="#" data-info="1">
    <span> ... </span>
    <span> ... </span>
</a>

<a class="foo" href="#" data-info="2">
    <span> ... </span>
    <span> ... </span>
</a>
...
...

I bind a handler to the click event of the anchor
but the event object comes back with the anchor OR one of the spans
depending on where I click. So to get my html5 “data-info” value into
the callback I have to insert a bit of messy code. This is now appearing
throughout my code to the point where I am guessing there might be an
idiomatic JQuery way of handling this.

EDIT: Backbone snippet showing my real problem ( excuse the coffeescript )

class DashboardView extends Backbone.View

  events:
    "click a.foo": "editLogItem"

  editLogItem: (e)->
    t = $(e.target).closest("a")

Answer 1

Example

$(this) will get the element defined by the selector you bind too.

$("a.foo").click(function (e){
    var data = $(this).data("info");
});

You should also use .data rather then .attr("data-...")

Edit:

If this is overwritten you can use e.currentTarget which will have the same value.