Make entire DIV clickable except the dropdown

Question

I'm trying to make the entire DIV clickable and got it working. However, I want to make an exception to the dropdown menu. Clicking this dropdown button shouldn't open up next.html . It currently opens up the dropdown but also quickly opens up next.html . How do I go about this?

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/40wntLyo/

<div class="project__body" onclick="location.href='next.html';">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-10">
      <h1>Title of the DIV</h1>
    </div>
    <div class="col-2 text-right">
      <div class="dropdown">
        <button type="button" class="dropdown-btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Menu</button>
          <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right">
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Edit</a>
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Delete</a>
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-12">
      <p>There's more content here in this div. There's more content here in this div. There's more content here in this div. </p>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

Add a JS function to the dropdown's parent div which is called on click:

<div class="col-2 text-right" onclick="processClick()">
  // Dropdown content here
</div>

<script>
    function processClick(e) { e.stopPropagation() }
</script>

Answer 2

First thing you have to remove inline javascript event and try below exmaple:

jQuery:

$('.dropdown').click(function(event){
    event.stopPropagation();
    $('.dropdown-menu').toggle();
})
$('.project__body').click(function(){
   window.location.href="next.html"
})

html:

<div class="project__body">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-10">
      <h1>Title of the DIV!</h1>
    </div>
    <div class="col-2 text-right">
      <div class="dropdown">
        <button type="button" class="dropdown-btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Menu</button>
          <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right">
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Edit</a>
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Delete</a>
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-12">
      <p>There's more content here in this div. There's more content here in this div. There's more content here in this div. </p>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 3

The following snippet should work

Move the click event to the parent dropdown container and it will also prevent redirection on click of dropdown items

 $('.dropdown').click(function(event) { $(this).children(".dropdown-menu").toggle() event.stopPropagation(); }) 

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