The Event interface represents any event which takes place in the DOM; some are user-generated (such as mouse or keyboard events), while others are generated by APIs (such as events that indicate an animation has finished running, a video has been paused, and so forth). There are many types of event, some of which use are other interfaces based on the main Event interface. Event itself contains the properties and methods which are common to all events.
Documentation Event by Mozilla Contributors, licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.
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Constructor
Variables
read onlycurrentTarget:EventTarget
A reference to the currently registered target for the event. This is the object to which the event is currently slated to be sent to; it's possible this has been changed along the way through retargeting.
read onlydefaultPrevented:Bool
Indicates whether or not event.preventDefault() has been called on the event.
read onlyexplicitOriginalTarget:EventTarget
The explicit original target of the event (Mozilla-specific).
Indicates whether or not the event was initiated by the browser (after a user click for instance) or by a script (using an event creation method, like event.initEvent)
read onlyoriginalTarget:EventTarget
The original target of the event, before any retargetings (Mozilla-specific).
Methods
Non-standard. Returns the value of Event.defaultPrevented. Use Event.defaultPrevented instead.
initEvent (type:String, bubbles:Bool, cancelable:Bool):Void
Initializes the value of an Event created. If the event has already being dispatched, this method does nothing.
stopImmediatePropagation ():Void
For this particular event, no other listener will be called. Neither those attached on the same element, nor those attached on elements which will be traversed later (in capture phase, for instance)