Question

I’m trying to have different delegate click handlers for different elements within “li” elements in a list. Example:

<ul id='myList'>
  <li>
    <p>First item.</p>
    <button>button1</button>
    <button>button2</button>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>Second item.</p>
    <button>button1</button>
    <button>button2</button>
  </li>
</ul>

when the user clicks button1 (of any item) I want to grab that event, and stop propagation (same for button2 instances). The user clicking the parent li element would be a different handler:

$('#myList').delegate('li', 'click', function() {
    alert("You clicked a parent <li> item!");
});

$('#myList').delegate('button', 'click', function(event) {
    event.stopPropagation();
    event.stopImmediatePropagation();
    alert("You clicked a button (but which one?)!");
});

So one issue is, how do I have a delegate for button1 instances, and another for button2 instances? The second delegate in the example above does fire when a button is clicked, but event.stopPropagation() doesn’t seem to work as the handler for the parent li item still gets called,

—— Update ————–

Also trying to call event.stopImmediatePropagation(), no effect though, parent handler still being called too.

Thank you

Answer 1

Maybe in the parent:

$('#myList').delegate('li', 'click', function(event) {
    if (!$(event.target).is('button')) {
        alert("You clicked a parent <li> item!");
    }
});