I rushed a bit in writing the html, the id should correspond to the
table and not the tr. The is("button") didn't work but is("input") is
getting what I wanted, thanks for the help.
On Apr 2, 5:55 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <rdwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Thierry <lamthie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have the following structure for tr:
>
> > <tr id="world">
> > <td></td>
> > <td></td>
> > <td>
> > <input type="button" name="hello" value="hello" />
> > </td>
> > </tr>
>
> > I also have the following javascript:
>
> > $("#world tr").click(function() {
> > // do stuffs
> > });
>
> this selector doesn't seem to match your html, as it reads "all TRs within
> the item with an id of world" but the item with an id of world is a TR, and
> wouldn't contain any unless you've got nested tables. Perhaps you meant #
> world.tr or <table id="world"><tr>?
>
>
>
> > Is there a way to prevent the above event from triggering when the
> > hello button is clicked?
>
> check event.target inside the click callback
>
> $("#world").click(function(event) {
> if (!$(event.target).is("button")) {
> //do stuff
> }
>
> });
>
> - Richard
