On my web page I have a list of files.

Each file is in it's own container div (div class="file"). Inside the container is a link to the file and a description.

I wanted to allow a user to click anywhere on the container to download the file. I did this by adding a click event to the container and retrieving the href of the child link.

As the file opens in a new window, if the user actually clicks the link, the file opens twice.

So I need to prevent the parent container click event from firing when the hyperlink is clicked. Would the best way of doing this be to add a click function to the hyperlink to0 and set event.stopPropagation? Presumably this would then stop the event from bubbling up to the container.