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Event: cancelBubble property

Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.

The cancelBubble property of the Event interface is deprecated. Use Event.stopPropagation() instead. Setting its value to true before returning from an event handler prevents propagation of the event. In later implementations, setting this to false does nothing. See Browser compatibility for details.

Value

A boolean value. The value true means that the event must not be propagated further.

Example

js

elem.onclick = (event) => {
  // Do cool things here
  event.cancelBubble = true;
};

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-event-cancelbubble①

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
cancelBubble
1Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
 12 53
1–53Only supported for UIEvent, not all Event objects.
 9
≤12.1Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
 1
≤37Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
18Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
 53
4–53Only supported for UIEvent, not all Event objects.
≤12.1Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
 1
1.0Starting with Samsung Internet 7.0 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/cancelBubble