Event: bubbles 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 bubbles read-only property of the Event interface indicates whether the event bubbles up through the DOM tree or not.
Note: See Event bubbling for more information on bubbling.
Value
A boolean value, which is true if the event bubbles up through the DOM tree.
Example
js
function handleInput(e) {
// Check whether the event bubbles passes the event along
if (!e.bubbles) {
passItOn(e);
}
// Already bubbling
doOutput(e);
}
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM # ref-for-dom-event-bubbles③ |
Browser compatibility
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See also
stopPropagation()to prevent further propagation of the current event in the capturing and bubbling phasesstopImmediatePropagation()to not call any further listeners for the same event at the same level in the DOMpreventDefault()to allow propagation to continue but to disallow the browser to perform its default action should no listeners handle the event