Categories: event

javascript event currentTarget

@March 15, 2008, 1:22 a.m.

currentTarget	Firefox/Netscape/NN 6 IE n/a Chrome/Safari/DOM 2
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Returns a reference to the node whose event listener is currently processing the event. Allows a function to know whether it is invoked from the actual target node or a different node during event propagation.

Example

if (evt.currentTarget.nodeType == 1) { // process at element level for possible text node target }

Value
Reference to a node in event propagation hierarchy.

Default
Reference to event target.

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