Event: target property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The read-only target
property of the
Event
interface is a reference to the object onto which the event was
dispatched. It is different from Event.currentTarget
when the event
handler is called during the bubbling or capturing phase of the event.
Value
The associated EventTarget
.
Example
The event.target
property can be used in order to implement event
delegation.
js
// Make a list
const ul = document.createElement("ul");
document.body.appendChild(ul);
const li1 = document.createElement("li");
const li2 = document.createElement("li");
ul.appendChild(li1);
ul.appendChild(li2);
function hide(evt) {
// evt.target refers to the clicked <li> element
// This is different from evt.currentTarget, which would refer to the parent <ul> in this context
evt.target.style.visibility = "hidden";
}
// Attach the listener to the list
// It will fire when each <li> is clicked
ul.addEventListener("click", hide, false);
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM # ref-for-dom-event-target③ |
Browser compatibility
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