make span selection go to parent div

I have a span inside a div.

.myspan {
    float:right;
}
<div>john, doe                    <span class="myspan">(male)</span></div>

Is th开发者_如何学编程ere a way if the user clicks or hovers over the span I can make those events go to the parent div?

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The events bubble up to the parent element by default. You don't have to do anything.

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If you want to access the parent, you can always say

(this).parent();

but i am not clear what is your requirement

as Matti said , by default events propogates to parent...

read this

http://api.jquery.com/event.stopPropagation/