How to stop event delegation(obvious fact #12132)

This was a question I got in the office today and there is no shame in asking it:

I am using Event Delegation on one of my products and I need to stop the main handler on the body from firing when I click a certain button. How do I do that?

The answer is of course to use stopPropagation() or cancelBubble(), both nicely wrapped in YAHOO.util.Event.stopPropagation():

HTML:

  <form id="buttons">
    <p><input id="tease" type="button" value="click me, wuss!"></p>
    <p><input id="tease2" type="button" value="click me, wuss! (I bubble)"></p>
    <div id="littlesnitch"></div>
  </form>

JavaScript:

YAHOO.util.Event.onContentReady('buttons',function(){
  YAHOO.util.Event.on(document.body,'click',function(e){
    var t = YAHOO.util.Event.getTarget(e);
    snitch('<p>It was the ' + t + ' that was clicked</p>');
  });
  YAHOO.util.Event.on('tease','click',function(e){
    snitch('<p>that was the first button</p>');
    YAHOO.util.Event.stopPropagation(e);
  });
  YAHOO.util.Event.on('tease2','click',function(e){
    snitch('<p>that was the second button</p>');
  });
  function snitch(msg){
    document.getElementById('littlesnitch').innerHTML += msg;
  }
});

Try it out here: Overriding Event Delegation with stopPropagation

Tags: eventdelegation, events, javascript, webdevtrick

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