how to write an onclick function in order to prevent bubbling

Question

Evening guys, I have an issue where a have a <td> tag and a <p> tag inside of it, both have onclick events, this is a textbook situation of the <p> onclick running the <td> onclick rather than its own. from what i have researched on here and elsewhere i have come to the understanding that this is caused by bubbling. However aparently knowing is only half the battle because i can not seem to find a way to implement a fix for this issue. Here is how i am currently attempting to work around it

html:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <p>text</p>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

jquery:

$(function(){
var show = function(){
    $('#editentry').css({'display': 'block'}); //this is column 3
}
//run var show on click
$('td p').click(function(event){
    show;
    event.stopPropagation();//stop bubbling
});
});//end function

i have also tried this:

$(function(){
var show = function(event){
    $('#editentry').css({'display': 'block'}); //this is column 3
    event.stopPropagation();
}
//run var show on click
     $('td p').click(show);
});//end function

from what i understand this should be working, sorry if i missed something simple, im a bit new to jquery and this seems to be a complicated subject. thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

What you have should work fine. That's exactly how you use stopPropagation.

Here is an example to show how it stops the event from bubbling:

HTML:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
        <p>inside paragraph</p> outside paragraph
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Javascript:

$(function(){

  $('td').click(function(event){
    alert('cell');
  });
  $('td p').click(function(event){
    event.stopPropagation();
    alert('paragraph');
  });
});

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/39n5X/

If you click on "inside paragraph" it will only show the "paragraph" message, and if you click on "outside paragraph" it will show the "cell" message instead.

Answer 2

Try replacing your stop bubbling line with this:

event.preventDefault ? event.preventDefault() : (event.returnValue=false);
event.stopPropagation ? event.stopPropagation() : (event.cancelBubble=true);