How to stop event bubbling on checkbox click

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I have a checkbox that I want to perform some Ajax action on the click event, however the checkbox is also inside a container with it’s own click behaviour that I don’t want to run when the checkbox is clicked. This sample illustrates what I want to do:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#container').addClass('hidden');
  $('#header').click(function() {
    if ($('#container').hasClass('hidden')) {
      $('#container').removeClass('hidden');
    } else {
      $('#container').addClass('hidden');
    }
  });
  $('#header input[type=checkbox]').click(function(event) {
    // Do something
  });
});
#container.hidden #body {
  display: none;
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
    <h1>Title</h1>
    <input type="checkbox" name="test" />
  </div>
  <div id="body">
    <p>Some content</p>
  </div>
</div>

However, I can’t figure out how to stop the event bubbling without causing the default click behaviour (checkbox becoming checked/unchecked) to not run.

Both of the following stop the event bubbling but also don’t change the checkbox state:

event.preventDefault();
return false;

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