Question

I have the following HTML:

<div class="server" id="32">
  <a>Server Name</a>
  <div class="delete-server">X</div>
</div>

I am trying to make it so when users click the server div it brings up an edit dialog. The problem is simply doing:

 $(".server").click(function () {
     //Show edit dialog
 });

Does not work, because if they click the X which is delete, it brings up the edit dialog. How can make the entire div server have the click event except the delete-server div.

Answer 1

$(".server").on('click', ':not(.delete-server)', function (e) {
     e.stopPropagation()
     // Show edit dialog
});

Here’s the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9bzmz/3/