Event.cancelBubble

Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

Deprecated
This feature has been removed from the Web standards. Though some browsers may still support it, it is in the process of being dropped. Do not use it in old or new projects. Pages or Web apps using it may break at any time.

The Event.cancelBubble property indicates if event bubbling for this event has been canceled or not. It is set to false by default, allowing the event to bubble up the DOM, if it is a bubbleable event. Setting this property to true stops the event from bubbling up the DOM. Not all events are allowed to bubble up the DOM.

Use Event.stopPropagation() instead of this non-standard method.

Syntax

JavaScript
event.cancelBubble = bool;
var bool = event.cancelBubble;

Specifications

This property is not part of any specification. Although it was included in an old Working Draft of W3C DOM Level 2. Microsoft has a description of it on MSDN.

Browser compatibility

Feature Firefox (Gecko) Chrome Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Opera Safari
Basic support No support (Yes) (Yes) (Yes) (Yes) (Yes)
Feature Firefox Mobile (Gecko) Android IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support ? ? ? ? ?

See also

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/api/event/cancelbubble

API DOM NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility Non-standard Property Reference