select the DIV but not the link inside it, jQuery question

Question

I have the following div:

<div class='amazingmenu' id='menupull'>
    <img src='images/down.png' width=20 height=20 align='right'/>
    <div id='menupullhideme'>click the arrow to read the rest!<br /></div>
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</div>

clicking the DIV or the image should execture some function in jQuery:

$('#menupull').click( function() {
          alert( 'pullmenu clicked' );
});

I want to make it so that it only alerts the message when I click the DIV or the image, but not the link. Tried this:

     $('#menupull:not(a)').click( function() {...

but that didn't work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem is probably event bubbling.. what you could do, is inside your "click" event check if the nodeName/tagName is A or not, if it is, abort the rest of your function and let the anchor just do it's thing.

My jQuery is a little rusty as I don't use it much myself, but I think something like this..

$('#menupull').click( function(e) {
    var target  = $(e.target);
    if( target.is('a') ) {
        return true; // True, because we don't want to cancel the 'a' click.
    }
});