I want to stop propagation of this div's onclick event to the document? When the user click on the "div", both alerts appear: 1) the div's alert and 2) the document's alert. I want to suppress the document alert.
I know how to do it using addEventListener, but is there another way to to do it? The problem below is that I don't know how to get ahold of the event -- I tried "event = element.onclick", shown below, but that doesn't work. How do I get the event?
<head><script> function showMenu(element) { alert("div clicked"); event = element.onclick; // HOW TO GET HOLD OF THE EVENT? // Don't propogate the event to the document if (event.stopPropagation) { event.stopPropagation(); // W3C model } else { event.cancelBubble = true; // IE model } } document.onclick = function() { alert('document clicked'); };</script></head><body><div id="foodmenu" onclick="showMenu(this);">Click inside this div</div> or click outside the div.</body>
