HTMX: disable click event on child nodes - htmx

Question

I have the following divs and want that when clicking on id="child" it should NOT execute a get to "/modal/closed" and NOT replace the id="modal". That is, do nothing HTMX related.
<div id="modal" hx-trigger="click"
hx-swap="outerHTML" hx-target="#modal" hx-get="/modal/closed" hx-params="none">
<div id="child">
</div>
</div>
Right now I have it working using the trigger "click consume" but need to specify an hx-get to an HTTP path that returns nothing (/nop).
Is there a cleaner way to do this?
<div id="modal" hx-trigger="click"
hx-swap="outerHTML" hx-target="#modal" hx-get="/modal/closed" hx-params="none">
<div hx-trigger="click consume" hx-swap="none" hx-get="/nop">
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

This can be solved using the event modifier "target:#modal" to indicate we are only interested on the click event originated from the id="modal".
This way clicks over id="child" that bubble up to id="modal" will be ignored.
<div id="modal" hx-trigger="click target:#modal"
hx-swap="outerHTML" hx-get="/modal/closed" hx-params="none">
<div id="child">
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

It works this way due to attribute inheritance in htmx https://htmx.org/docs/#inheritance. Placing the hx-trigger attribute on the outer-most div, means that element will listen for the event in all of it's children. When you add the same attribute to a child div with the consume modifier it stops the event bubbling up.
So the solution here would be to remove the hx-trigger from the outer div. In fact, if what you are trying to do is close a modal, you can add a close button somewhere else in the div. Something like this:
<div id="modal">
<button id="close" hx-trigger="click"
hx-swap="outerHTML" hx-target="#modal" hx-get="/modal/closed" hx-params="none">Close</button>
<div id="child">
</div>
</div>
Now when you click on the child div the event bubbles up and it's not caught by the sibling close button.