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Stopping event propagation - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: JavaScript: Events
Stopping event propagation
Event propogation can save you a lot of time by letting you capture an event on a parent element instead of having to register events for individual item. But on occasion, you may want to have an event stop propagating through the dom chain. We can do that with the stopPropagation () method. Now if you're trying to support older versions of IE, you would do this by setting the cancelbubble property to true for those browsers. Now let's see how this is done. So if we take a look at our page right now, and we click on this pink item right here, you'll notice that it's registering two events. And it's registering them in the capturing face, so they clicked and said the UL happens first and then pink. So let's go into our code, and first you want to change these two elements. To bubble instead of capture. So, I'm going to change the true right here to false. It'll be compatible with more browsers this way. And we want to add the stop propagation method onto the event right after we log…
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