how can i stop event bubbling without stopPropagation method

Question

there is some html code like this:

<ul>
    <li id='root' class='tree-node'>
      root
      <ul>
        <li class='tree-node' id='node1'>node1</li>
        <li class='tree-node' id='node2'>node2</li>
        <li class='tree-node' id='node3'>node3</li>
        <li class='tree-node' id='node4'>node4
            <ul>
                <li class='tree-node' id='node4-1' >node4-1</li>
                <li class='tree-node' id='node4-2' >node4-2</li>                    
            </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </li>

<ul>

i want to bind click event to each tag which has tree-node class

and also binding click event to document

here is my code:

$(".tree-node").click(function(e){
    console.log($(this).attr("id"));
});

$(document).click(function(e){
    console.log("document clicked!");   
});

Is there any alternative for stopPropagation() to stop event bubbling from node4-2 to its parents?

fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/R6ySc/

Answer 1

You could just use the document click event and handle everything from there.

$(document).click(function(e){
    console.log("document clicked!");    
    var t = $(e.target);
    if(t.attr("class") == "tree-node") {
        console.log("tree node clicked");
    }
});​

Check this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/R6ySc/3/

as an alternative, you can also specify a selector in the onclick event for the document (check the jQuery documentation for this):

$(document).on("click", ".tree-node", function(e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
    console.log("tree node '" + $(this).attr("id") + "' clicked");
});​

for reference, check the comments below