Question

Using a Backbone.js View, say I want to include the following events:

    events: {
        'click a': 'link', 
        'click': 'openPanel' 
    }

How can I avoid openPanel to be fired when I click on a link. What I want is to have a clickable box which will trigger an action, but this box can have elements which should trigger other actions, and not the parent action. Think for example Twitter.com, and links in Tweets/right hand panel.

Answer 1

I’ve been using e.stopImmediatePropagation(); in order to keep the event from propagating. I wish there was a shorter way to do this. I would like return false; but that is due to my familiarity with jQuery