Jquery Event.stoppropagation() Not Working

In my html I have a span of class dragHandle embedded within a li.

• Solution 1:

  How do I stop the click event being called for mousedown/up events on the dragHandle?

  You capture... and eat... that event:

  $(".dragHandle").click(function(event) { event.stopPropagation(); });
  

  The key here is that click, mousedown, and mouseup are distinct events. Although you might think of a click as being a mousedown followed by a mouseup, in reality you might have click events triggered by user actions that don't even involve the mouse, as well as combinations of mousedown and mouseup that don't result in any click events at all.

  Solution 2:

  You could create a simple wrapper-"class", that keeps track of mouse-down and up events:

  (function () {
     varDragDropHandler = {
        isDrag: false,
  
        mouseDownHandler: function (event) {
          alert("down");
          event.stopPropagation();
          this.isDrag = true;
        },
  
        mouseUpHandler: function (event) {
          alert("Up");
          event.stopPropagation();
          this.isDrag = false;
        },
  
        clickHandler: function (event) {
           event.stopPropagation();
           // Check if we've already received a mouseDown-event. If we have,// disregard the click event since we want drag-functionalityif(this.isDrag) { return; }
           alert("click");
        }
     };
  
     $(".tree li").click(function(event) {
        DragDropHandler.clickHandler.call(DragDropHandler, event);
     });
     $(".dragHandle").mousedown(function(event) {
        DragDropHandler.mouseDownHandler.call(DragDropHandler, event);
     });
     $(".dragHandle").mouseup(function(event) {
        DragDropHandler.mouseUpHandler.call(DragDropHandler, event);
     });
  })();
  

  This creates a closure and delegates the event handling to the DragDropHandler-object. Note that I've used function.call (the first parameter is the context) to ensure that this refers to the DragDropHandler-object inside its methods. Since we have created an anonymous function that can not be reached from global space, I think it's acceptable to use the DragDropHandler reference inside the wrapper event handlers.

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