The Event.cancelBubble property is a historical alias to Event.stopPropagation(). 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.
Syntax
event.cancelBubble = bool; var bool = event.cancelBubble;
Example
elem.onclick = function(e) {
// do cool things here
e.cancelBubble = true;
}
Specifications
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| DOM The definition of 'cancelBubble' in that specification. |
Living Standard |
Browser compatibility
| Feature | Chrome | Firefox (Gecko) | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | (Yes) [1] | 53 (53)[2] | (Yes) | (Yes) [1] | (Yes) |
| Feature | Android Webview | Chrome for Android | Firefox Mobile (Gecko) | IE Mobile | Opera Mobile | Safari Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | (Yes) [1] | (Yes) [1] | 53 (53)[2] | (Yes) | (Yes) [1] | (Yes) |
[1] Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.
[2] Previous to Firefox 52, this property was defined on the UIEvent interface. See bug 1298970 for more details.