Case 1 (direct): $(“div#target span.green”).on(“click”, function() {…}); == Hey! I want every span.green inside div#target to listen up: when you get clicked on, do X. Case 2 (delegated): $(“div#target”).on(“click”, “span.green”, function() {…}); == Hey, div#target! When any of your child elements which are “span.green” get clicked, do X with them. In other words… In case … Read more
I am adding this answer for completeness because the accepted answer by @amustill does not correctly solve the problem in Internet Explorer. Please see the comments in my original post for details. In addition, this solution does not require any plugins – only jQuery. In essence, the code works by handling the mousewheel event. Each … Read more
Event bubbling and capturing are two ways of event propagation in the HTML DOM API, when an event occurs in an element inside another element, and both elements have registered a handle for that event. The event propagation mode determines in which order the elements receive the event. With bubbling, the event is first captured … Read more