How to have click event ONLY fire on parent DIV, not children?

I have a DIV with a classed foobar, and a few DIVs inside that DIV that are unclassed, but I suppose they are inheriting the foobar class:

$('.foobar').on('click', function() { /*...do stuff...*/ });

I want that to fire off only when clicking somewhere in the DIV but not on its children DIVs.

If the e.target is the same element as this, you've not clicked on a descendant.

$('.foobar').on('click', function(e) {
  if (e.target !== this)
    return;
  
  alert( 'clicked the foobar' );
});

.foobar {
  padding: 20px; background: yellow;
}
span {
  background: blue; color: white; padding: 8px;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class='foobar'> .foobar (alert) 
  <span>child (no alert)</span>
</div>

There's another way that works if you don't mind only targeting newer browsers. Just add the CSS

pointer-events: none;

to any children of the div you want to capture the click. Here's the support tables

http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer-events

I did not get the accepted answer to work, but this seems to do the trick, at least in vanilla JS.

if(e.target !== e.currentTarget) return;

You can use bubbling in your favor:

$('.foobar').on('click', function(e) {
    // do your thing.
}).on('click', 'div', function(e) {
    // clicked on descendant div
    e.stopPropagation();
});